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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-01-30 18:50:28 (GMT) |
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[3.12] Clarify one-item tuple (GH-114745) (#114757)
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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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst index 9ce2589..8f7c014 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst @@ -1883,8 +1883,9 @@ 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: ``()``.) |