From 41a698b442881b7f40cef5b3c6954097d0965a10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Weeks <rweeks@phemi.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:28:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Changed dereference.py to keep tuples as tuples

---
 mongoengine/dereference.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mongoengine/dereference.py b/mongoengine/dereference.py
index 386dbf4b..fcb6d89a 100644
--- a/mongoengine/dereference.py
+++ b/mongoengine/dereference.py
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ class DeReference(object):
 
         if not hasattr(items, 'items'):
             is_list = True
+            as_tuple = isinstance(items, tuple)
             iterator = enumerate(items)
             data = []
         else:
@@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ class DeReference(object):
 
         if instance and name:
             if is_list:
-                return BaseList(data, instance, name)
+                return tuple(data) if as_tuple else BaseList(data, instance, name)
             return BaseDict(data, instance, name)
         depth += 1
         return data