willkg/kitsune — comment on commit dd4355227b3cb6c883768379b991c099220e1175
File: apps/search/__init__.py line 70
By willkg:

order_by takes *args, so the only way to handle both a tuple and a string is to either add code to order_by to flatten the args or to add code to the caller to do one thing if it's a tuple and another if it's a strong. Both of those are kind of icky.

So, I don't think we can change these three from tuples of one element to just the element without doing dirtier things elsewhere.