Hmm... An idea: if a,b==c,d:

[Erik Max Francis]

Richard Dillingham wrote:

> It doesn't have ()s, so it ain't two tuples. Easy enough, da?

Nyet.  The problem is that a, b == c, d already has a perfectly valid
meaning in python, it's a tuple with the second element being b == c. 
Making an exception in syntax for what seems a very marginal case seems
unwise.

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