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From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: one-element tuples [Was: Most probably a stupid question, but I still want to ask]
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:20:32 +1000
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry guys. It was not my intention to piss off anyone...just trying to
> understand how the languare works
>
> I guess that the answer to my question is: there is no such thing as a
> one-element tuple,
> and Python will automatically convert a one-element tuple to a string...
> hence the
> behavior I observed is explained...
>
>>>> a = ('hello','bonjour')
>>>> b = ('hello')
>>>> b
> 'hello'
>>>> a
> ('hello', 'bonjour')
>>>>
>
>
> Did I get this right this time?

Okay, now you're asking a question in a reasonable way, so we can answer :)

The thing you're confused at is that it's not the parentheses that
create a tuple. Parentheses merely group.

>>> 'hello', 'bonjour'
('hello', 'bonjour')
>>> 'hello',
('hello',)

One-element tuples are perfectly possible, but you MUST have a comma,
so you have one at the end. The trailing comma is perfectly legal (and
ignored) on larger tuples.

>>> 'hello', 'bonjour',
('hello', 'bonjour')

ChrisA