[issue40631] PEG Parser: Cannot used starred expression in parenthesised expr

[Lysandros Nikolaou]

New submission from Lysandros Nikolaou <lisandrosnik at gmail.com>:

The new PEG parser fails when a parenthesised expression with a single child (a group) contains a starred expression. Example:

╰─ ./python.exe
Python 3.9.0a6+ (heads/master-dirty:4a12d12186, May 15 2020, 14:53:45)
[Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.8)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ast
>>> ast.parse('(*a)')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/lysnikolaou/Repositories/cpython/Lib/ast.py", line 50, in parse
    return compile(source, filename, mode, flags,
  File "<unknown>", line 1
    (*a)
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This was valid syntax up until now:

╰─ ./python.exe -X oldparser
Python 3.9.0a6+ (heads/master-dirty:4a12d12186, May 15 2020, 14:53:45)
[Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.8)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ast
>>> ast.dump(ast.parse('(*a)'))
"Module(body=[Expr(value=Starred(value=Name(id='a', ctx=Load()), ctx=Load()))], type_ignores=[])"

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assignee: lys.nikolaou
components: Interpreter Core
messages: 368936
nosy: gvanrossum, lys.nikolaou, pablogsal
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: PEG Parser: Cannot used starred expression in parenthesised expr
versions: Python 3.9

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