Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Terry Reedy Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Most probably a stupid question, but I still want to ask Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 21:45:21 -0400 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <1460331024.3440141.574603049.214AD5E6@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de lWUJbjkRTgRIhRRaEXEHVQQ1SsTZ3tu+B0kgzVvmcWbg== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'subject:question': 0.08; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:still': 0.09; 'python.': 0.11; 'jan': 0.11; 'one-element': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'string': 0.17; '>>>': 0.20; 'tuples': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; "skip:' 10": 0.28; 'tutorial': 0.29; 'posting': 0.32; '(i.e.': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'wrong': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'received:96': 0.63; 'different': 0.63; 'information': 0.63; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.91; 'subject:want': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-96-227-207-81.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: <1460331024.3440141.574603049.214AD5E6@webmail.messagingengine.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:106831 On 4/10/2016 8:17 PM, Fillmore wrote: > apparently my 'discontinuity' is mappable to the fact that there's no such > thing as one-element tuples in Python, and attempts to create one will > result in a string (i.e. an object of a different kind!)... Please work through the tutorial before posting wrong information about the basics of Python. >>> t = 1, >>> t (1,) -- Terry Jan Reedy