PEP 679: Updates based on Discourse discussion (#4600)

Author: StanFromIreland

peps/pep-0679.rst

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Status: Draft
 Type: Standards Track
 Created: 07-Jan-2022
 Python-Version: 3.15
-Post-History: `10-Jan-2022 <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-679-allow-parentheses-in-assert-statements/13003>`__
+Post-History: `08-Sep-2025 <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-679-new-assert-statement-syntax-with-parentheses/103634>`__,
+              `10-Jan-2022 <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-679-allow-parentheses-in-assert-statements/13003>`__
 
 
 Abstract
@@ -132,10 +133,10 @@ specification.
 (Note that, without the warning specification the pure parser implementation is
 a small grammar change [#previmp]_).
 To raise the warning, the compiler must
-be aware of the new syntax, which means that a flag would be necessary as
-otherwise the information is lost during parsing.
-As such, the AST of an :keyword:`assert` would look like so,
-with a ``paren_syntax`` flag::
+be aware of the new syntax, this means that an optional flag would be necessary
+as otherwise the information is lost during parsing.
+As such, the AST of an :keyword:`assert` with parentheses would look like so,
+with a ``paren_syntax=1`` flag::
 
     >>> print(ast.dump(ast.parse('assert(True, "Error message")'), indent=4))
     Module(
@@ -145,8 +146,6 @@ with a ``paren_syntax`` flag::
                 msg=Constant(value='Error message'),
                 paren_syntax=1)])
 
-The flag would be removed in 3.18 along with the :exc:`SyntaxWarning`.
-
 
 Implementing in the compiler
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