syntax error?why?

[Robert L Hicks]

I don't think this is a bug. It caught the error. Sure it should be more
informational but that doesn't classify it as a bug.

> From: Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk>
> Organization: University of Cambridge, England
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Date: 03 Nov 2000 19:04:56 +0000
> Subject: Re: syntax error?why?
> 
> "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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