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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:51:27 -0500
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 02/10/2015 09:33 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
>>> If you can show me a one tuple anywhere in the original code I'll
>>> happily buy you a tipple of your choice.
>>
>>
>> print Menu[fav,RandomNum]
>>
>> was in the original code
>
> That's not a one-tuple (as in, a tuple with one element), it's a
> two-element tuple. The point is that ("3") doesn't create a tuple,
> it's just superfluous parentheses.

You're right of course. I didn't notice the meaning of one-tuple; I took 
Mark's comment as if he had said:

If you can show me a <rubout><rubout> one tuple anywhere ...

The original error message said there was a tuple;  I knew that fav 
wasn't the tuple, but the combination of fav and RandomNum was.


-- 
DaveA