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Redundant parentheses

Reports about redundant parentheses in expressions.

The IDE provides the quick-fix action to remove the redundant parentheses.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PyRedundantParentheses
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Python

Inspection ID: PyRedundantParenthesesInspection

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Redundant parentheses inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore argument of % operator

Option ID:

myIgnorePercOperator

Default value:

Not selected
Ignore tuples

Option ID:

myIgnoreTupleInReturn

Default value:

Not selected
Ignore empty lists of base classes

Option ID:

myIgnoreEmptyBaseClasses

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PyRedundantParentheses

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025