logic behind the assert syntax?

[Martin von Loewis]

Greg Landrum <glandrum at my-deja.com> writes:

> I'll just keep repeating to myself: "Don't feed parens to statements
> which eat commas!" and everything will be fine.

I think many Python users follow the approach: "Don't use any extra
parenthesies!". 

So it is
  if a==b:
*not*
  if(a==b):

it is
  return 1,2
*not*
  return(1,2)

Even though these are allowed, it'll be much easier if you don't write
the parens. Then not having to use parens in assert, raise, print etc
comes natural.

Regards,
Martin