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Author rhettinger
Recipients gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, lys.nikolaou, pablogsal, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, slebedev
Date 2021-12-24.00:17:10
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> can we finally get rid of this language wart

Yes, please.  This is a pretty bad pitfall.

I've seen this happen to people who've been conditioned by other languages to think of assert() as a macro or function:

    assert(sometest, somemessage)
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