Tuples -- who needs 'em

Robert W. Cunningham rcunning at acm.org
Fri Apr 7 03:34:43 EDT 2000


Greg Ewing wrote:

> Unfortunately, Python *does* need 1-tuples. If
> only ASCII had more kinds of brackets, Guido might
> have chosen differently. Maybe if Python 3000 uses
> Unicode for source files...

Well, if they can be syntactically disambiguated from Python relational
comparison operators, "<" and ">" can be used as "brokets".

Then again, we can always resort to something like trigraphs... <gag>  Whoops,
Python has already started down that road:  """

-BobC





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