What is the data type of (1) in python?

Question

a = (1)
b = ('y')

The output of type(a) is int, isn't it supposed to be a tuple? Similarly, type(b) is str.

How does this make it an int or str or float etc for the single value inside the round brackets?

Answer 1

That's because you do not have the correct syntax of a one-element tuple:

type((1)) # int
type((1,)) # tuple