To create a tuple with one element, you need to do this:

>>> my_tuple = (1,)    # Note the trailing comma after the value 1
>>> type(my_tuple)
<type 'tuple'>


But if you do this

>>> my_tuple = (1)
>>> type(my_tuple)
<type 'int'>

you don't get a tuple. I thought that just putting a value inside ( )
would make a tuple. Apparently that is not the case. I hate ugly code
so it would be clean if Python would convert anything put into ( ) to
be a tuple, even if just one value was put in (without having to use
that ugly looking comma with no value after it).

But we need parentheses for grouping!

That's an absolute no-starter. Not the parentheses make the tuple, the
commas do. The empty tuple is the exception, not the rule.

Just in case the previous comments aren't clear: Would you rather see

py> (3+4)*5
35

or

py> (3+4)*5
(7, 7, 7, 7, 7)

Martin I see the point now. I appologize for not having the clear head
of seeing the possible damage that my feature request would make. I take
my request back.