Why tuple with one item is no tuple

[Batista, Facundo]

[Gregor Horvath]

#-  >>>type(('1'))
#- <type 'str'>
#- 
#- I wonder why ('1') is no tuple????

The parentheses don't create the tuple, the comma does:

>>> ('1')
'1'
>>> ('1',)
('1',)
>>> '1',
('1',)


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