[Python-Dev] Sorry. No Release.

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
 > My guess is that -tt triggered a SyntaxError (maybe we should create an
 > IndentationError that is a subclass of SyntaxError?) 

Paul Prescod writes:
 > +1
 > 
 > That would be great for newbies!

  Yes, but the name is confusing, because it isn't raised for every
sort of indentation error if it's only used for tab/space problems:

try:
    1/0
        1/0
finally:
    pass

still would raise SyntaxError.  Should that raise an IndentationError
as well?  Or should IndentationError be named something else?
  (Just adding IndentationError for -tt isn't hard, I have a
preliminary patch for that now.  Adding it for the case above looks
harder.)


  -Fred

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