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gh-86482: Document assignment expression need for ()s (GH-23291)
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com> (cherry picked from commit 2b5f136) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Assignment expressions must be surrounded by parentheses when used
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as sub-expressions in slicing, conditional, lambda,
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keyword-argument, and comprehension-if expressions
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and in ``assert`` and ``with`` statements.
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In all other places where they can be used, parentheses are not required,
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including in ``if`` and ``while`` statements.
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.. versionadded:: 3.8
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See :pep:`572` for more details about assignment expressions.
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Document some places where an assignment expression needs parentheses.

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