title: Converting string to tuple without splitting characters
body: <p>I am striving to convert a string to a tuple without splitting the characters of the string in the process. Can somebody suggest an easy method to do this. Need a one liner.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Fails</strong>  </p>
  
  <pre><code>   a = 'Quattro TT'
     print tuple(a)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Works</strong>  </p>
  
  <pre><code>  a = ['Quattro TT']  
    print tuple(a)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Since my input is a string, I tried the code below by converting the string to a list, which again splits the string into characters ..    </p>
  
  <p><strong>Fails</strong>  </p>
  
  <pre><code>a = 'Quattro TT'
  print tuple(list(a))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Expected Output:</strong> </p>
  
  <pre><code>('Quattro TT')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Generated Output:</strong> </p>
  
  <pre><code>('Q', 'u', 'a', 't', 't', 'r', 'o', ' ', 'T', 'T')
  </code></pre>