Why tuple with one item is no tuple
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou
tzot at sil-tec.gr
Tue Mar 22 19:37:21 EST 2005
On 15 Mar 2005 11:25:15 -0500, rumours say that roy at panix.com (Roy
Smith) might have written:
>The big question is, is it the parens that make it a tuple, or is it
>the comma? If you go along with the parens school of thought, then
>(1,) is the special case. If you believe in commas, then the () is
>the special case. In either case, it's a bit ugly, but we learn to
>overlook the occasional cosmetic blemishes of those we love :-)
My take on this is that comma defines tuples, and () is the exception.
.>> tpl = 1, 2, 3 * 4; print tpl
(1, 2, 12)
.>> tpl = (1, 2, 3) * 4; print tpl
(1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3)
So parentheses just change precedence (comma has lower precedence than
star).
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