A somewhat complicated solution that necessitated adding a new custom
function to `tsg-python`. See the comments in `python.tsg` for why this
was necessary.
Surprisingly, the new parser did not support these constructs (and the
relevant test was missing this case), so on files that required the new
parser we were unable to parse this construct.
To fix it, we add `list_pattern` (not to be confused with
`pattern_list`) as a `tree-sitter-python` node that results in a `List`
node in the AST.
Turns out, `except*` is actually not a token on its own according to the
Python grammar. This means it's legal to write `except *foo: ...`, which
we previously would consider a syntax error.
To fix it, we simply break up the `except*` into two separate tokens.
That is, the `*T` in `def foo(*args : *T): ...`.
This is apparently a piece of syntax we did not support correctly until
now.
In terms of the grammar, we simply add `list_splat` as a possible
alternative for `type` (which could previously only be an `expression`).
We also update `python.tsg` to not specify `expression` those places (as
the relevant stanzas will then not work for `list_splat`s).
This syntax is not supported by the old parser, hence we only add a new
parser test for it.
Note that this still includes the somewhat puzzling parsing of
`Spam[**P2]` as an exponentiation with an empty left hand side. When we
fix that bug, we should also update this test to contain actually valid
syntax.