[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? > Give that (?)man a cigar! The only time the parentheses are necessary is when you need to disambiguate - the most frequent needs are:
() for an empty tuple: there's no other way to express that without using tuple(), and f((a, b, ...)) to provide a single tuple argument to a function. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Love me, love my blog http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
