> i am using a tuple because i am building lists. I don't understand
> if i just use (food + > drink) then while drink is unique food remains the same do i get this: > > (burger, coke) > (burger, 7up) > (burger, sprite) I don't understand what you're saying here. food and drink are both strings. adding them together gives you a new string. putting parentheses around a string does not give you a tuple, you need that magic comma to get python to recognize the expression as a tuple. As I said: > > (food + drink + '\n') is not a tuple, (food + drink + '\n',) is And since all you're doing with the data list is joining into a single string, I still don't see where you need any tuples. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
