I thought to open a separate report itself in order to keep the original issue not cluttered with questions since it could be used for other docs. Sorry for my report there. Original report as permsg334341 .It seems parens are mandatory while using named expressions in while statement which makes some of the examples invalid likehttps://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/#sysconfig-py . From my limited knowledge while statement Grammar was not modified athttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/10497/files#diff-cb0b9d6312c0d67f6d4aa1966766ceddR73 and no tests for while statement which made me assume it's intentional. I haven't followed the full discussion aboutPEP 572 so feel free to correct me if it's a conscious decision and in that case thePEP 572 can be updated.# python info➜  cpython git:(master) ./python.exePython 3.8.0a0 (heads/bpo35113-dirty:49329a217e, Jan 25 2019, 09:57:53)[Clang 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)] on darwinType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>># Example as inPEP 572 to create a simple file that reads itself and prints lines that matches "foo"➜  cpython git:(master) cat /tmp/foo.pyimport rewith open("/tmp/foo.py") as f:    while line := f.readline():        if match := re.search(r"foo", line):            print(match.string.strip("\n"))➜  cpython git:(master) ./python.exe /tmp/foo.py  File "/tmp/foo.py", line 4    while line := f.readline():               ^SyntaxError: invalid syntax# Wrapping named expression with parens for while makes this valid➜  cpython git:(master) cat /tmp/foo.pyimport rewith open("/tmp/foo.py") as f:    while (line := f.readline()):        if match := re.search(r"foo", line):            print(match.string.strip("\n"))➜  cpython git:(master) ./python.exe /tmp/foo.pywith open("/tmp/foo.py") as f:        if match := re.search(r"foo", line):As a user I think parens shouldn't be mandatory in while statement since if statement works fine. Parens can cause while statement to be superfluous in some cases and an extra case to remember while teaching.

Emily, I think this would be as simple as making a tiny change toGrammar/Grammar and running make regen-grammar. Can you take care of that?

> Emily, I think this would be as simple as making a tiny change toGrammar/Grammar and running make regen-grammar. Can you take care of that?Thanks, can confirm that this fixes the issue. I changed test to namedexpr_test for while statement in grammar and ran `make regen-grammar` and `make`. The reported program runs fine andLib/test/test_named_expressions.py also passes.➜  cpython git:(master) ✗ cat /tmp/foo.pyimport rewith open("/tmp/foo.py") as f:    while line := f.readline():        if match := re.search(r"foo", line):            print(match.string.strip("\n"))➜  cpython git:(master) ✗ ./python.exe /tmp/foo.pywith open("/tmp/foo.py") as f:        if match := re.search(r"foo", line):Patch : ➜  cpython git:(master) ✗ git diff | catdiff --git a/Grammar/Grammar b/Grammar/Grammarindexe65a688e4c..a425978059 100644--- a/Grammar/Grammar+++ b/Grammar/Grammar@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ assert_stmt: 'assert' test [',' test] compound_stmt: if_stmt | while_stmt | for_stmt | try_stmt | with_stmt | funcdef | classdef | decorated | async_stmt async_stmt: 'async' (funcdef | with_stmt | for_stmt) if_stmt: 'if' namedexpr_test ':' suite ('elif' namedexpr_test ':' suite)* ['else' ':' suite]-while_stmt: 'while' test ':' suite ['else' ':' suite]+while_stmt: 'while' namedexpr_test ':' suite ['else' ':' suite] for_stmt: 'for' exprlist 'in' testlist ':' [TYPE_COMMENT] suite ['else' ':' suite] try_stmt: ('try' ':' suite            ((except_clause ':' suite)+diff --git a/Python/graminit.c b/Python/graminit.cindex6e0f19891b..5cdde2789c 100644--- a/Python/graminit.c+++ b/Python/graminit.c@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ static arc arcs_42_0[1] = {     {103, 1}, }; static arc arcs_42_1[1] = {-    {26, 2},+    {99, 2}, }; static arc arcs_42_2[1] = {     {27, 3},

Thanks, Karthikeyan! Can you submit that as a PR?

> Thanks, Karthikeyan! Can you submit that as a PR?Sure, I will submit the patch with tests for the same.Thanks

New changesetd4fceaafb8e3f8700d9ec6ab37a51e903392f74f by Emily Morehouse (Xtreak) in branch 'master':bpo-35877: Make parenthesis optional for named expression in while statement (GH-11724)https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d4fceaafb8e3f8700d9ec6ab37a51e903392f74f

Thanks, Karthikeyan! I added an additional test to make sure this gets coverage. I'll close out this issue once tests pass and I can merge that.

New changesetac19081c26eaa7de3e6aabeb789ddc2e7cdd5b24 by Emily Morehouse in branch 'master':bpo-35877: Add test for while loop named expression without parentheses (GH-11726)https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ac19081c26eaa7de3e6aabeb789ddc2e7cdd5b24

Thanks a lot Guido and Emily for guidance on this issue. Happy to see this for alpha release :)