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

Is it absolutely necessary that it returns tuples, or will any iterable do?

import collections
def iterate(keywords):
    if not isinstance(keywords, collections.Iterable):
        yield keywords
    else:
        for keyword in keywords:
            yield keyword


for keyword in iterate(library.get_keywords()):
    print keyword