pylint #18860 warn on assert( a, b ?) [resolved]

James Lingard reported:

A bug I have encountered several times in Python code is writing:

assert( x, "x should have been True" )

rather than:

assert x, "x should have been True"

It would be great if pylint could catch this error.

note that python2.6 already emits a warning:

>>> def f(x):
...   assert( x, "x should have been True" )
...
<stdin>:2: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?