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Proposed warning: assert <generator_expression> #534

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@gschaffner

For example:

assert (result[i] == expected[i] for i in range(len(expected)))
assert (result[key] == expected[key] for key in result.keys() | expected.keys())

bugbear could warn and suggest adding all().

Note that even an empty generator expression is truey:

assert (False for _ in range(0))

so it's fine that bugbear doesn't statically know the length of the generator.

There are a couple of similar warnings:

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