Using generator expressions to directly create tuples is a not so good idea performance-wise. Use it only if you have memory issues because it is not very performant. Using tuple([list comprenension]) is at most twice as fast.

# -*- coding: utf-8; -*-

__comment1 = "Comment 1"
key1 = "the value"
key2 = 2
key3 = 5.7
key4 = true
key5 = false
key6 = 0o377
__comment2 = "Comment no 2"
key7 = "Umlaute: ÄÖÜäöüß"