Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: one-element tuples Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:10:24 +1000 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <851t6d3s0k.fsf_-_@benfinney.id.au> <85bn5h2af9.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <85wpo423bj.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de UhxEJeb12UQ1VFBpo2TJDggQtLQqFdKzIWemoIbnQOIA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZSAebr4wAr0Nter13mRfCYXRrl8= Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.050 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.90; '*S*': 0.00; 'facts': 0.09; 'happen?': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'examples?': 0.16; 'expect,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'resource,': 0.16; 'surprising': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'examples': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'specifically': 0.28; 'themselves': 0.29; "i'd": 0.31; 'role': 0.32; 'statement': 0.32; 'surprised': 0.33; 'so,': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'there': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'really': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'does': 0.39; 'subject:-': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'here.': 0.62; 'matter': 0.63; 'different': 0.63; 'interest': 0.64; 'between': 0.65; 'fact,': 0.67; 'business': 0.69; 'skip:\xe2 10': 0.70; 'teach': 0.70; 'surprise': 0.72; '_o__)': 0.84; 'received:125': 0.84; 'responses': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) 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: <85wpo423bj.fsf@benfinney.id.au> X-Mailman-Original-References: <851t6d3s0k.fsf_-_@benfinney.id.au> <85bn5h2af9.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:106851 Fillmore writes: > On 04/10/2016 09:36 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > If the two examples give you different responses (one surprises you, the > > other does not), I would really like to know*what the surprise is*. > > What specifically did you expect, that did not happen? > > now that I get the role of commas it's not surprising anymore... 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. -- \ “My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves | `\ to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my | _o__) aspirations.“ —Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860-09-23 | Ben Finney