On 04/11/2016 12:10 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
So, will we never get your statement of what surprised you between those examples? Clearly there is something of interest here. I'd like to know what the facts of the matter were; “beginner's mind” is a precious resource, not to be squandered.
I thought I had made the point clear with the REPL session below. I had (what seemed to me like) a list of strings getting turned into a tuple. I was surprised that a single string wasn't turned into a single-element tuple. Now that I know that commas create tuples, but lack of commas don't, I'm not surprised anymore. >>> a = '"string1"' >>> b = '"string1","string2"' >>> c = '"string1","string2","string3"' >>> ea = eval(a) >>> eb = eval(b) >>> ec = eval(c) >>> type(ea) <class 'str'> >>> type(eb) <class 'tuple'> >>> type(ec) <class 'tuple'> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
