The Tuple syntax is perfectly regular
Grant Edwards
ge at nowhere.none
Mon Sep 4 18:07:17 EDT 2000
In article <slrn8r7p08.536.jepler.lnk at potty.housenet>, jepler epler wrote:
>'(', (item, ',')*, ')'
>
>()
>(1,)
>(1,2,)
>
>the only irregularity is that the trailing comma is sometimes optional.
>Surely everybody will be happy if we eliminate that little bit of cruft.
No, that's not the tuple syntax. The syntax is:
empty: ()
singleton: a,
etc.: a,b
: a,b,c
The parens are only part of tuple syntax in the case of the
empty touple. You're right about an optional trailing comma on
tuples with 2+ items.
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