a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Ed Avis:
> martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?=) writes:
  [...]
> >Elsewhere in the thread I have said that this interpretation is
> >incorrect: a simple_stmt always ends with a NEWLINE, something which
> >you apparently don't want.
> 
> And yet elsewhere I have replied citing the definition of simple_stmt
> from <http://python.org/doc/current/ref/grammar.txt>, which seems to
> show that simple_stmt does not end with a NEWLINE.

Sheesh!

Language Reference:

    statement ::= stmt_list NEWLINE | compound_stmt
    stmt_list   ::= simple_stmt (";" simple_stmt)* [";"]
    simple_stmt ::= expression_stmt | assert_stmt ...

No NEWLINE in simple_stmt, like Ed says.

Grammar/Grammar:

    stmt: simple_stmt | compound_stmt
    simple_stmt: small_stmt (';' small_stmt)* [';'] NEWLINE
    small_stmt: expr_stmt | print_stmt ...

NEWLINE in simple_stmt, like Martin says.

Using the terms and syntax of Grammar/Grammar, Ed's proposal was
to replace

    lambdef: 'lambda' [varargslist] ':' test

with

    lambdef: 'lambda' [varargslist] ':' small_stmt

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