List vs. Tuple

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <000401bf1177$3d7d3760$3acbd9c2 at peridot.optichrome.com>,
Adrian Eyre <a.eyre at optichrome.com> wrote:
>> It's the commas, not the parentheses, which make a tuple
>> constructor.
>
>If this is the case, I wonder why the parentheses are present
>on the default repr() of a tuple?

Because __repr__ is supposed to be a cut'n'paste representation such
that dropping it into code will work.  There are many places in Python
where you need the parentheses to disambiguate the tuple creation.
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