Hello.
Problematic rule is Python static code analysis: Parentheses should not be used after certain keywords Parentheses should not be used after certain keywords. In code view it says “Remove the parentheses after this “not” keyword.”.
SonarQube
Version: 8.9.5.50698
Date: 2022-05-02
Sample code (I don’t think more context is necessary):
if not (article_tag := soup.find("article")):
...
Sonar reports to remove parentheses around walrus operator assignment. This isn’t a valid issue in Python 3.8 (at least) because removing parentheses causes SyntaxError (run through pytest):
E File "/home/some/path/file.py.", line 9999
E if not article_tag := soup.find("article"):
E ^
E SyntaxError: cannot use assignment expressions with operator
Removing not keyword in non-parentheses version “solves” SyntaxError but changing condition is not a valid solution here. Parentheses are required.