Tuples -- who needs 'em

[Bjorn Pettersen]

Bob Alexander wrote:
[...]
> However, too bad about that nasty syntax irregularity that using parens for
> tuples presents  (1,)  (Couldn't resist  ;-)
[...]

Contrary to popular belief, it's actually the comma that creates the
tuple, not the parens...  As an example, I recently copied code from a
dictionary to an assignment a little to hasty:

   foo = {
      'a' : 1,
      'b' : 2,
   }

to:

   a = 1,
   b = 2,

and it took me way to long to figure out where the eventual "unpack
tuple of wrong size" error was coming from... *sigh*   Serves me righ, I
suppose <wink>

--bjorn