PYTHON

> not supported between tuple and int

def buildTree(tuples) :
    while len(tuples) > 1 :
        leastTwo = tuple(tuples[0:2])                  # get the 2 to combine
        theRest  = tuples[2:]                          # all the others
        combFreq = leastTwo[0][0] + leastTwo[1][0]     #enter code here the branch points freq
        tuples   = theRest + [(combFreq,leastTwo)]     # add branch point to the end
        tuples.sort()                                  # sort it into place
    return tuples[0]            # Return the single tree inside the list

> not supported between tuple and int

>>> inner = (combFreq, leastTwo)
>>> inner
(2, ((1, 'b'), (1, 'd')))
>>> theRest[1]
(2, 'c')
>>> theRest[1] < inner
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'tuple'