Python needs better error reporting
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Jul 2 15:23:42 EDT 2002
Hans-Joachim Widmaier wrote:
> Instead of listing all the legitimate tokens that may follow, why not
> just give something like "Incomplete 'if' statement?"
of course, if you bother to read the *entire* error message,
that's not too far from what it says today:
File "<stdin>", line 1
if s == ""
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
(and the fact that your typical Python autoindenter
refuses to indent the next line if you leave out the
colon may also help; I usually discover mistakes like
this long before I run the code...)
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