Hi,

2009/11/5 James Lingard <j...@aristanetworks.com>:
> A bug I have encountered several times in Python code is writing:
>
>  assert( x, "x should have been True" )
>
> rather than:
>
>  assert x, "x should have been True"
>
> It would be great if pylint could catch this error.

note that python2.6 already emits a warning:

>>> def f(x):
...   assert( x, "x should have been True" )
...
<stdin>:2: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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