Question about tuple lengths

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:58:16 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Jean-Paul
Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:

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>It's the comma that makes it a tuple.  The parenthesis are only required in cases where the expression might mean something else without them.

That's almost true.  Consider:

>>> t2 = (1,2)  # 2 element tuple
>>> t1 = (1,)   # 1 element tuple
>>> t0 = (,)    # 0 element tuple?
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    t0 = (,)
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> t0 = ()     # Guess not, try parens with no comma
>>> print t0, t1, t2
() (1,) (1, 2)
>>> print type(t0), type(t1), type(t2)
<type 'tuple'> <type 'tuple'> <type 'tuple'>
>>> print len(t0), len(t1), len(t2)
0 1 2
>>>

Regards,
                                        -=Dave

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