Christian Tismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans Nowak wrote: > > > ... for u in(3,14,10)) > > > > can be written as: > > > > ... for u in 3,14,10) > > > > which would shave off a character. Tuples don't always need parentheses... > > This would work with a list comprehension. > Doesn't work with a generator expression > (thought of it, too, and the list comprehension eats one char)
Right. I asked Guido about that, as he put together the 120-chars submission of "Team Google" (including some input from me and others), and he says it's to avoid (human) ambiguity, much like the reason the parentheses are mandatory in [(a,b) for ...]. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
