Why tuple with one item is no tuple

On 15 Mar 2005 11:25:15 -0500, rumours say that roy at panix.com (Roy
Smith) might have written:

>The big question is, is it the parens that make it a tuple, or is it>the comma?  If you go along with the parens school of thought, then>(1,) is the special case.  If you believe in commas, then the () is>the special case.  In either case, it's a bit ugly, but we learn to>overlook the occasional cosmetic blemishes of those we love :-)

My take on this is that comma defines tuples, and () is the exception.

.>> tpl = 1, 2, 3 * 4; print tpl
(1, 2, 12)
.>> tpl = (1, 2, 3) * 4; print tpl
(1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3)

So parentheses just change precedence (comma has lower precedence than
star).
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