Why tuple with one item is no tuple

Antoon Pardon wrote:
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> So python choose a non-deterministic direction. To me (2,3) + (4,5)> equals (6,8). I don't dispute that having an operator to combine> (2,3) and (4,5) in (2,3,4,5) is usefull, but they should never have> used the "+" for that.

("alph", "bravo") + ("delta", "max") --> ("alphdelta", "bravomax")

As we say in Australia, "What The ....."

Joal