How to create a tuple with only one element

Question

In the below example I would expect all the elements to be tuples, why is a tuple converted to a string when it only contains a single string?

>>> a         


        

Answer 1

('a') is not a tuple, but just a string.

You need to add an extra comma at the end to make python take them as tuple: -

>>> a = [('a',), ('b',), ('c', 'd')]
>>> a
[('a',), ('b',), ('c', 'd')]
>>>