<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">The PEP says:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SourceSansProRegular,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Omitting the parentheses from this PEP's proposed syntax introduces many syntactic ambiguities.</span>

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</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">and:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SourceSansProRegular,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">As the name's scope extends to the full current statement, even a block statement, this can be used to good effect in the header of an<span> </span></span><tt class="gmail-docutils gmail-literal" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">if</tt><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SourceSansProRegular,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>or<span> </span></span><tt class="gmail-docutils gmail-literal" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">while</tt><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SourceSansProRegular,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>statement</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Will the `from ... import ... as ... statement be a special case, because currently the following form is valid:</div><div><br></div><div>from math import (tau as two_pi) </div><div><br></div><div>With kind regards,</div><div>-gdg</div></div>