[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I keep accidently trying to declare t-tuples as mytuple = (myitem) > > I know this doesn't work and that you need the trailing comma, but > reading something online, I just came to realize.... the parenthesises > don't have any special meaning in relation to tuples at all, do they? >
Aside from grouping, they are special to construct an empty tuple. py> () == tuple() True Also, don't underestimate their relationship with tuples when it comes to grouping: py> a, b, c = 1, 2, 3 py> py> a == a, b, c (True, 2, 3) py> a == (a, b, c) False James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
