[issue43366] Unclosed bracket bug in code.interact prevents identifying syntax errors

[Pablo Galindo Salgado]

Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablogsal at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Maybe we need to add an API (e.g. a flag to compile()) so that we can ask the actual parser the question we're interested in, rather than having to use hacks and heuristics?

I was thinking about that, but we need to fix some inconsistencies along the way first. I am currently already doing that work (starting with https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24763) and once that is fixed we can pass that down with some flags to the compiler.

----------

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue43366>
_______________________________________