What does the following code give us?

[bansalhimani]

What does the following code give us?
>>> b=(1)

[dukool sharma]

Not a tuple. This gives us a plain integer.

>>> type(b)
<class ‘int’>
To let it be a tuple, we can declare so explicitly with a comma after 1:

>>> b=(1,)
>>> type(b)
<class ‘tuple’>