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~~Why can parenthesis cause exceptions in Python when using for loops?~~

Why can parentheses cause exceptions in Python when using for loops?

Using parenthesis in Javascript is always needed when you wanted to create functions, if/else statements and for/while loops. But in Python it has a function that is called tuples. When using an if statement for example, it won't be a big deal when I use parenthesis. But when it comes to for...in loops it seems to cause exceptions. For example,
```
fruits = ["Apple", "Banana", "Orange"]
for (fruit in fruits):
~~print(fruit)~~
```
This will return an exception, `SyntaxError: invalid syntax`
But when I remove the parenthesis it will work again. Is this because the parenthesis that acts as a tuple prevent the for...in loop to iterate over the list and set a value from the list to fruit? Which makes it not possible to be printed?

Using parentheses in Javascript is always needed when you want to create functions, `if`/`else` statements and `for`/`while` loops. But in Python it has a function that is called tuples. When using an `if` statement for example, it won't be a big deal when I use parentheses. But when it comes to `for`...`in` loops it seems to cause exceptions. For example,
```
fruits = ["Apple", "Banana", "Orange"]
for (fruit in fruits):
print(fruit)
```
This will return an exception, `SyntaxError: invalid syntax`
But when I remove the parentheses it will work again. Is this because the parentheses that act as a tuple prevent the `for`...`in` loop from iterating over the list and setting a value from the list to `fruit`? Which makes it not possible to be printed?

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