[issue28550] if inline statement does not work with multiple assignment.

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[issue28550] if inline statement does not work with multiple assignment.

Eric Snow added the comment: The syntax is working correctly. Precedence rules are throwing you off. It should be more clear if we use parentheses to demonstrate precedence explicitly. You expected: a, b = (obj.a, obj.b) if obj else [None, None] However, what you wrote is equivalent to: a,

[issue28550] if inline statement does not work with multiple assignment.

New submission from Levi Velázquez: Normal "if" inline assignment obj = None a = obj.a if obj else None It assign None to a as expected. obj = None a, b = obj.a, obj.b if obj else [None, None] It raises an error " 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'a'" when it should assign None to both a