Tuple passed to function recognised as string

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Mike314 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I have following code:
> 
> def test_func(val):
>     print type(val)
> 
> test_func(val=('val1'))
> test_func(val=('val1', 'val2'))
> 
> The output is quite different:
> 
> <type 'str'>
> <type 'tuple'>
> 
> Why I have string in the first case?
> 
It's the comma that makes the tuple, except for one special case: the
empty tuple "()". The parentheses are there just for clarity and
operator precedence.

('val1') is not a 1-tuple, but just parentheses for grouping. The
1-tuple is ('val1', ). Notice that a trailing comma is allowed in tuples
as well as list and dict literals, eg (1, 2, ), [1, 2, ], {1: 2, 3: 4,
}.