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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2024-01-30 18:50:32 (GMT)
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[3.11] Clarify one-item tuple (GH-114745) (#114758)
A 'single tuple' means 'one tuple, of whatever length. Remove the unneeded and slightly distracting parenthetical 'singleton' comment. (cherry picked from commit a1332a99cf1eb9b879d4b1f28761b096b5749a0d) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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@@ -1873,8 +1873,9 @@ the unpacking.
.. index:: pair: trailing; comma
-The trailing comma is required only to create a single tuple (a.k.a. a
-*singleton*); it is optional in all other cases. A single expression without a
+A trailing comma is required only to create a one-item tuple,
+such as ``1,``; it is optional in all other cases.
+A single expression without a
trailing comma doesn't create a tuple, but rather yields the value of that
expression. (To create an empty tuple, use an empty pair of parentheses:
``()``.)