Will Stuyvesant wrote:

Andrew Koenig wrote:

how about writing this instead?

   ('this is a '
    'long string')


Yes, nice.  And to make that possible we have to write
('one-string-item',) instead of ('one-string-item') if we want a tuple
with one string inside.  Sometimes that feels like a wart to me, but
now I know it, sometimes not.

That has very little to do with tuples. You could just as easily write

    'this is a '\
    'long string'

It's the dangling comma that's required to specify a tuple:

 >>> 1,
(1,)
 >>>

regards
 Steve
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