I can't thank you enough for your reply and for everyones' great info on this thread. The end of your email gave a rock solid reason why it is impossible to improve upon ()'s for tuples....
Actually, you missed the point. The parentheses don't have anything to do with the tuple. They are just used for disambiguation. It's the commas that define the tuple.
-- Timo Virkkala -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
