Implicit lists

[Martin Maney]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
> Maybe you mean to pass a singleton tuple, in which case you
> need to use the following syntax:
> 
>      foo(('this string available',))
> 
> The easy-to-miss trailing comma is what denotes the singleton
> tuple -- unpleasant, but I know of no better alternatives.

Yes, that's what I was thinking, but the fingers didn't execute it. 
Another reason to prefer the list in this context.  After long enough
that I think of myself as quite comfortable with Python, that comma is
one thing I still glitch up relatively often.