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

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 16:51:50 EST 2016


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",)
<stdin>:1: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?

Victor


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