Why tuple with one item is no tuple

[Ville Vainio]

>>>>> "Antoon" == Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> writes:

    Antoon> Op 2005-03-27, Joal Heagney schreef <joal at bigpond.net.au>:
    >> Antoon Pardon wrote:
    >> <snip>
    >>> So python choose a non-deterministic direction. To me (2,3) + (4,5)
    >>> equals (6,8). I don't dispute that having an operator to combine
    >>> (2,3) and (4,5) in (2,3,4,5) is usefull, but they should never have
    >>> used the "+" for that.
    >> 
    >> ("alph", "bravo") + ("delta", "max") --> ("alphdelta", "bravomax")

    Antoon> No, that wouldn't be the result. You are still using "+"
    Antoon> for concatenation, even if only on strings. I say python
    Antoon> should have used something else for concatenation (string
    Antoon> concatenation included)

To me, nothing is more natural than "ab" + "cd" == "abcd". Also [1,2]
+ [3,4] == [1,2,3,4]. "Dot product" is not really too useful in real
world (non-mathematical) apps.

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