Tuples

[Greg Ewing]

Gerrit Holl wrote:
> 
> With tuples, some things aren't really Pythonic. In some cases, even
> the Perl-like TMTOWTDI thing is true!
> a[1,2] = 'f'
> is equivalent to:
> a=[(1,2)] = 'f'

Yes -- for exactly the same reason that

    a = 42

is equivalent to

   a = (42)


> And:
> "aaa %s bbb" % 'foo'
> is equivalent to:
> "aaa %s bbb" % ('foo',)

Here, Guido evidently considered that the one-argument
case was sufficiently common, and the general way of
writing it sufficiently ugly, that a special case was
justified. I'm inclined to agree with him -- in this
case, it does improve readability.

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