ast.unparse: visually better code generation

[isidentical]

BPO	44142
Nosy	@pablogsal, @isidentical
PRs	bpo-44142: drop redundant parantheses when unparsing tuples as assignment targets #26156

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assignee = 'https://github.com/isidentical'
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created_at = <Date 2021-05-15.13:29:46.966>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library', '3.11']
title = 'ast.unparse: visually better code generation'
updated_at = <Date 2021-05-15.23:26:57.680>
user = 'https://github.com/isidentical'

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activity = <Date 2021-05-15.23:26:57.680>
actor = 'BTaskaya'
assignee = 'BTaskaya'
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closed_date = None
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components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2021-05-15.13:29:46.966>
creator = 'BTaskaya'
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issue_num = 44142
keywords = ['patch']
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nosy_names = ['pablogsal', 'BTaskaya']
pr_nums = ['26156']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'patch review'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue44142'
versions = ['Python 3.11']

[isidentical]

This issue is for tracking possible places where we could generate better code on ast.unparse (better as in more closely to what people are actually writing than our naive implementation).

Examples;
>>> import ast
>>> ast.unparse(ast.parse('a, b, c = [1,2,3]'))
'(a, b, c) = [1, 2, 3]'

could be
>>> ast.unparse(ast.parse('a, b, c = [1,2,3]'))
'a, b, c = [1, 2, 3]'

OR
>>> print(ast.unparse(ast.parse('if value := d.get("something"): print(value)')))
if (value := d.get('something')):
    print(value)

could be
>>> print(ast.unparse(ast.parse('if value := d.get("something"): print(value)')))
if value := d.get('something'):
    print(value)

We could even go further with the long line unpacking (which would definitely require some sort of clever algorithm for nested structures).

>>> source = '[\n' + '\tsomething,\n' * 20 + ']'
>>> print(source)
[
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
        something,
]
>>> print(ast.unparse(ast.parse(source)))
[something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something, something]

[furkanonder]

@isidentical The issue seems to be solved. We can close the issue.