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

How can I create a tuple consisting of just an empty tuple, i.e. (())? I have tried tuple(tuple()), tuple(tuple(tuple())), tuple([]) and tuple(tuple([])) which all gave me ().

The reason that I use such a thing is as follows: Assume you have n bags with m items. To represent a list of items in a bag, I use a tuple of length n where each element of that tuple is a representative for a bag. A bag might be empty, which is labeled by (). Now, at some initial point, I have just one bag with empty items!

Answer

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