From: Fred Drake Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:09:10 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Removed some extraneous and confusing parenthesized expressions. X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~1941 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c009d198db67d197c8c78451b28e15302646de74;p=python Removed some extraneous and confusing parenthesized expressions. Noted by Skip Montanaro . --- diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref5.tex b/Doc/ref/ref5.tex index 5bca8ed2d7..1ef032b610 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref5.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref5.tex @@ -840,15 +840,15 @@ def make_incrementor(increment): expression_list: expression ("," expression)* [","] \end{verbatim} -An expression (expression) list containing at least one comma yields a +An expression list containing at least one comma yields a tuple. The length of the tuple is the number of expressions in the list. The expressions are evaluated from left to right. \obindex{tuple} The trailing comma is required only to create a single tuple (a.k.a. a \emph{singleton}); it is optional in all other cases. A single -expression (expression) without a trailing comma doesn't create a -tuple, but rather yields the value of that expression (expression). +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: \code{()}.) \indexii{trailing}{comma}