Puzzling difference between lists and tuples
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 14:59:37 EDT 2020
On 2020-09-17, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> The only time the parentheses are required for tuple building is when
>> they would otherwise not be interpreted that way:
>>
> They're needed for the empty tuple, which doesn't have a comma.
>
>> some_func('first', 'second') # some_func called with two str args
>>
>> some_func(('first', 'second')) # some_func called with one tuple arg
Yea, the syntax for tuple literals has always been a bit of an ugly
spot in Python. If ASCII had only had one more set of open/close
brackets...
--
Grant
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