[issue36376] Wrong position of SyntaxError in IDLE
Vedran Čačić
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Mar 19 22:23:08 EDT 2019
New submission from Vedran Čačić <vedgar at gmail.com>:
Open IDLE, New File, put this inside:
'abcde\
')
x = 123456789
And try to Run Module. Of course, the syntax error is extra ) at the end of the second line. But it is not highlighted. What's highlighted is 123 in the third line. Some additional observations:
* the length of the first line determines somehow what's highlighted in the third one: the longer the first line, more to the right the highlight goes in the third;
* third line can be whatever you want, it just needs to be long enough for a highlight to appear;
* you can even have blank lines between them;
* the same phenomenon appears if you use triple-quoted strings instead of single-quoted with backslash line continuation.
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messages: 338432
nosy: veky
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Wrong position of SyntaxError in IDLE
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