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

Rather than checking for a length of 1, I'd use the isinstance built-in instead.

>>> isinstance('a_str', tuple)
False
>>> isinstance(('str1', 'str2', 'str3'), tuple)
True