Implicit lists
Martin Maney
maney at pobox.com
Tue Feb 4 11:08:20 EST 2003
Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
> Maybe you mean to pass a singleton tuple, in which case you
> need to use the following syntax:
>
> foo(('this string available',))
>
> The easy-to-miss trailing comma is what denotes the singleton
> tuple -- unpleasant, but I know of no better alternatives.
Yes, that's what I was thinking, but the fingers didn't execute it.
Another reason to prefer the list in this context. After long enough
that I think of myself as quite comfortable with Python, that comma is
one thing I still glitch up relatively often.
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