Why tuple with one item is no tuple

[Antoon Pardon]

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")

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

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Antoon Pardon