difference between today, and today variables

[ichabod801]

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cursor.fetchone is returning a tuple of length 1. By using today = (no comma), you just get the tuple. But using today, = (with a comma) is using tuple assignment. As in:

>>> nums = (1, 2)
>>> one, two = nums
>>> one
1
>>> two
2

And they are not the same type. You are just checking the type of the second today twice. If you had check the type of the first today before reassigning it, you would see it was equal to datetime. Here's an example:

>>> one = (1,)
>>> one
(1,)
>>> uno, = (1,)
>>> uno
1
>>> type(one)
<class 'tuple'>
>>> type(uno)
<class 'int'>