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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-06-13 17:08:53 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-06-13 17:08:53 (GMT)
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give a better error message when deleting ()
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Python/ast.c b/Python/ast.c
index a415495..4a85164 100644
--- a/Python/ast.c
+++ b/Python/ast.c
@@ -402,10 +402,13 @@ set_context(struct compiling *c, expr_ty e, expr_context_ty ctx, const node *n)
s = e->v.List.elts;
break;
case Tuple_kind:
- if (asdl_seq_LEN(e->v.Tuple.elts) == 0)
- return ast_error(n, "can't assign to ()");
- e->v.Tuple.ctx = ctx;
- s = e->v.Tuple.elts;
+ if (asdl_seq_LEN(e->v.Tuple.elts)) {
+ e->v.Tuple.ctx = ctx;
+ s = e->v.Tuple.elts;
+ }
+ else {
+ expr_name = "()";
+ }
break;
case Lambda_kind:
expr_name = "lambda";