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

The () have nothing to do with tuples in python, the tuple syntax uses ,. The ()-s are optional.

E.g.:

>>> a=1, 2, 3
>>> type(a)

>>> a=1,
>>> type(a)

>>> a=(1)
>>> type(a)

I guess this is the root of the problem.