How to create a tuple of an empty tuple in Python?

The empty tuple is () (or the more-verbose and slower tuple()), and a tuple with just one item (such as the integer 1), called a singleton (see here and here) is (1,). Therefore, the tuple containing only the empty tuple is

((),)

Here are some results showing that works:

>>> a=((),)
>>> type(a)
<type 'tuple'>
>>> len(a)
1
>>> a[0]
()
>>> type(a[0])
<type 'tuple'>
>>> len(a[0])
0

I'm not surprised this (()) didn't work, since the outer parentheses get interpreted as that - parentheses. So (()) == (), just like (2) == 2. This should work, however:

((),)