[New-bugs-announce] [issue40493] Pegen can't parse some function type comments

Shantanu report at bugs.python.org
Mon May 4 00:21:40 EDT 2020


New submission from Shantanu <hauntsaninja at gmail.com>:

Currently fails if we don't have any arguments before *args and **kwargs

```
~ λ python3.9
Python 3.9.0a6+ (heads/master:c95e691, May  3 2020, 19:57:46) 
[Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ast; ast.parse("(*int) -> None", mode="func_type", type_comments=True)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/shantanu/.pyenv/versions/3.9-dev/lib/python3.9/ast.py", line 50, in parse
    return compile(source, filename, mode, flags,
  File "<unknown>", line 1
    (*int) -> None
     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
```

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messages: 368009
nosy: hauntsaninja
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Pegen can't parse some function type comments

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