Support nested tuple unpacking in for loops

doc/build/unreleased/368.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+.. change::
+    :tags: bug, codegen
+    :tickets: 368
+
+    Fixed issue where unpacking nested tuples in a for loop using would raise a
+    "couldn't apply loop context" error if the loop context was used. The regex
+    used to match the for loop expression now allows the list of loop variables
+    to contain parenthesized sub-tuples.

mako/codegen.py

@@ -1251,8 +1251,13 @@ def visitCallTag(self, node):
 
 
 _FOR_LOOP = re.compile(
-    r"^for\s+((?:\(?)\s*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*"
-    r"(?:\s*,\s*(?:[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*),??)*\s*(?:\)?))\s+in\s+(.*):"
+    r"^for\s+((?:\(?)\s*"
+    r"(?:\(?)\s*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*"
+    r"(?:\s*,\s*(?:[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*),??)*\s*(?:\)?)"
+    r"(?:\s*,\s*(?:"
+    r"(?:\(?)\s*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*"
+    r"(?:\s*,\s*(?:[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*),??)*\s*(?:\)?)"
+    r"),??)*\s*(?:\)?))\s+in\s+(.*):"
 )
 
 

test/test_loop.py

@@ -31,6 +31,16 @@ def test__FOR_LOOP(self):
                 "x",
                 "[y+1 for y in [1, 2, 3]]",
             ),
+            (
+                "for ((key1, val1), (key2, val2)) in pairwise(dict.items()):",
+                "((key1, val1), (key2, val2))",
+                "pairwise(dict.items())",
+            ),
+            (
+                "for (key1, val1), (key2, val2) in pairwise(dict.items()):",
+                "(key1, val1), (key2, val2)",
+                "pairwise(dict.items())",
+            ),
         ):
             match = _FOR_LOOP.match(statement)
             assert match and match.groups() == (target_list, expression_list)