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		icebraining on Sept 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js) I don't get your tuple example. If you don't use the tuple operator - the comma - why would you expect to get a tuple? People trot Python out as the gold standard of language design Who?

emmelaich on Sept 16, 2012 [–]

> I don't get your tuple example ...

The point is that it's a subtle syntactical difference but a dramatic semantic difference. I think most newcomers to Python hit this.

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