Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablog...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> I don't recall if this is really only a "skip leading whitespace" problem, or > if there's some other reason they're required. IIRC, this forces the expression inside to be parsed as an expression. This helps the quite a lot the parser. For instance, detecting a bare **x without grouping is more difficult, even with the old parser. With parentheses it must be an expression so is easier to disambiguate. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41064> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
