Why tuples use parentheses ()'s instead of something else like <>'s?

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Jeff Shannon <jeff at ccvcorp.com> wrote:
>    ...
>> to remember and type some arcane alt-keycode formula to be able to do
>> basic scripting would be obnoxious, to say the least.  Most keyboards
>> worldwide provide decent support for the ASCII character set (though 
>> some add a few extra national characters).  Perhaps things will change
> 
> Italian-layout support for braces is the pits (alt-keycodes ahoy): one
> way I managed to get a local friend interested in Python was to point
> out that he'd neved NEED to type braces (calling `dict' is just as good
> a way to make dictionaries, as braces-laden `dict display' forms;-).

That's equally true for the German keyboard layout, though I believe
that most programmers switch to standard English layout anyway.

Reinhold