> No language that I know (Haskell, Rust, F#, Python, and more) > that has tuples supports the initialization of a n-tuple with a > scalar value. In Python there is a way to build a n-tuple from a 1-tuple, but the seed is not a scalar, and this is an explicit syntax: >>> (5,) * 3 (5, 5, 5) Bye, bearophile