def create_options(items):
    """
    creates a tuple of dicts with each key and value set to an item of given list.

    :param list items: items to create a tuple of dicts from them.

    :rtype: tuple[dict]
    """

    results = []
    for item in items:
        option = dict(name=item, value=item)
        results.append(option)

    return tuple(results)