Lysandros Nikolaou <lisandros...@gmail.com> added the comment: Whoops, false alarm.
It's just that we moved the check for invalid starred expressions to the parser, while it previously was in the compiler. ╰─ ./python.exe -X oldparser Python 3.9.0a6+ (heads/master-dirty:003708bcf8, May 15 2020, 15:08:21) [Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.8)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> (*a) File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can't use starred expression here Sorry for the noise! ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40631> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com