[Python-Dev] Issue #26204: compiler now emits a SyntaxWarning on constant statement (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Feb 8 17:19:06 EST 2016

On 2/8/2016 4:51 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

2016-02-08 22:28 GMT+01:00 Alexander Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com>:

What incantation do you need to do to make that behavior apparent? I didn't know. I just checked. It's assert used with a non-empty tuple:

assert ("tuple",) :1: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?

I think this should be left to linters also.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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