Kevin Shweh <kevin.shweh@gmail.com> added the comment: It looks to me like there are more situations than the patch lists where whitespace still separates tokens. For example, *? is a reluctant quantifier and * ? is a syntax error, even in verbose mode. ---------- nosy: +Kevin Shweh _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue15606> _______________________________________