On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:53 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2020-09-17, MRAB <pyt...@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...
... then I'd prefer them to be used for sets, actually. I think the set/dict collision is more weird than the tuple/grouping one. Now, if only ASCII had *two* more sets of open/close brackets... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list