a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ed Avis wrote:

> If you mean that the syntax is problematic, because the commas could
> belong to 'print' or to the list, it's a fair point.  And I know that
> Python developers are keen to keep the syntax simple (and my complaint
> is mostly semantic).  Still, I think that parenthesizing where
> necessary would not be unreasonable.

doesn't work:

>>> (print x)
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    (print x)
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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