ways to declare empty set variable

[Ben Finney]

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > Note that '()' is syntactically null. Parentheses don't declare a
> > tuple literal, commas do. Parentheses are for grouping within
> > expressions, not specifying type.
> >
> Tell that to the interpreter:
> 
> >>> type(())
> <type 'tuple'>
> >>> tuple() is ()
> True
> >>>

Well, knock me down with a kipper.

That makes it even more a violation of principle-of-least-astonishment
that the '(foo)' form doesn't give a one-element tuple literal.

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