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Author ncoghlan
Recipients ncoghlan, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2017-11-14.10:25:03
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The compiler currently allows parentheses to be omitted if a generator expression is the sole entry in a base class list:

    >>> class C(x for x in []): pass
    ... 
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: cannot create 'generator' instances

The language reference states that the parentheses around a generator expression are only optional for "calls with only one argument": https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#generator-expressions

A base class list is not a call, so this should be treated as a syntax error, rather than being handled as equivalent to `class C((x for x in [])): pass`
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