Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
>
> From my interpreter prompt:
>
>>>> tuple = ("blah")
>>>> len(tuple)
> 4
>>>> tuple2 = ("blah",)
>>>> len (tuple2)
> 1
>
> So why is a tuple containing the string "blah" without the comma of
> length four? Is there a good reason for this or is this a bug?
Additional note:
You should not give a tuple a variable name of tuple, it masks
the built-in tuple() function. This also goes for str, or other
built-ins. This will "bite" you at some point if it hasn't already.
-Larry Bates
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