On Thursday, January 23, 2014 3:15:07 PM UTC+5:30, lgabiot wrote: > Le 23/01/14 10:04, Mark Lawrence a écrit : > > No, you need to remember how to type xyz into your favourite search > > engine. For this case xyz would be something like "python single > > element tuple".
> No big deal, but I don't think you are correct. > Problem was that for me I "knew" (it was erroneous of course) that > (element) was a python single element tuple... so there was no need for > me to look for something I "knew". > Once I understood that what I "knew" was wrong (that is after reading > the answers to my first post), I did type xyz in my favourite search > engine, which led me to the link I posted in my answer... Singleton tuples are a common gotcha in python Follows from the world-wide shortage in parenthesis -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list