Make Python create a tuple with one element in a clean way

[Asun Friere]

On May 11, 10:54 pm, wxPytho... at gmail.com wrote:
> To create a tuple with one element, you need to do this:
>
> >>> my_tuple = (1,)    # Note the trailing comma after the value 1
> >>> type(my_tuple)
>
> <type 'tuple'>
>

You needn't at all.  You could simply do this:

>>> your_tuple = 1,

You see, it's not the parentheses that make the tuple.


> But if you do this
>
> >>> my_tuple = (1)
> >>> type(my_tuple)
>
> <type 'int'>
>
> you don't get a tuple.

For which the BDFL should make us eternally grateful.

> it would be clean if Python would convert anything put into ( ) to
> be a tuple

You seriously want 2*(3+4) to return (7,7)?  You call that "clean"?!

At least type(my_tuple) would always return 'tuple,' whether it was or
not. ;)