[issue40403] pdb does not drop into debugger upon SyntaxError caused by ast.literal_eval

[Xavier de Gaye]

Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye at gmail.com> added the comment:

In Kerrick's example ast.literal_eval('') could be ast.literal_eval(some_code) instead where some_code is a string containing dynamically generated Python code. pdb post-mortem debugging must allow finding the syntax error in this code. The patch proposed in issue 16180 by Terry may fix this problem (and issue 16180).

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