how do you pronounce 'tuple'?

[Tim Hochberg]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote:
> 
> 
>>A more interesting question is what do you call ()?  A none-tuple?
> 
> 
> Yeah, that's at the point where it _really_ departs from anything 
> remotely mathematical.  Don't think I've ever heard the occasion to talk 
> about 0-tuples in any context, though, so I don't think it's something 
> we need to worry about.  I'm sure you'd just call them "empty tuples" or 
> "0-tuples" and move on :-).
> 

There's only one tuple of length zero, so I just call it "Spot".

 >>> a = ()
 >>> b = ()
 >>> a is b
True