syntax error?why?

[Michael Hudson]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> Therefore, this must count as a bug of the Python
> compiler -- it displays insufficient information
> on these kinds of syntax errors (showing a couple
> of extra previous lines would help, as would having
> a message a TAD more informative than 'invalid
> syntax'!-).  Quite unfriendly, especially to
> beginning users of Python...

Python 2 is much better here (praise be to Ping!).  Of course I can't
tell you whether it would be in this situation...

Cheers,
M.

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