What's the best practice for handling single-value tuples in Python?

Question

I am using a 3rd party library function which reads a set of keywords from a file, and is supposed to return a tuple of values. It does this correctly as long as there are at le

Answer 1

You need to somehow test for the type, if it's a string or a tuple. I'd do it like this:

keywords = library.get_keywords()
if not isinstance(keywords, tuple):
    keywords = (keywords,) # Note the comma
for keyword in keywords:
    do_your_thang(keyword)