bug in builtin compile function?

[Erik Max Francis]

Michael McCandless wrote:

> I told compile that the file was "foo.py", so, why doesn't it say that
> in the SyntaxError instead of saying <string>?

Because the parse error was in the string you passed it on, not in
foo.py.

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