non descriptive error

[Timothy Smith]

Neil Hodgson wrote:

>Timothy Smith:
>
>  
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>>FYI i have located where the problem was. in the first if statement
>>there was an unbalanced ). now since when does python not give a
>>descriptive error for that?
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>I see this with the arrow pointing at the extra ')':
>
> >pythonw -u "xx.py"
>   File "xx.py", line 3
>     if 
>Decimal(self.parent.TillDetails[self.TillSelection.GetStringSelection()]['ChangeTinBalance'])) 
>== Decimal('0'):
> 
>                              ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>    Neil
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>
it is definately a bug in 2.3 when using the decimal module. i can 
reproduce it.

from decimal import Decimal
a = Decimal('0'

and when you attempt to run it you will get "error"

of course i do understand that decimal wasn't part of 2.3, but atleast 
now when if anyone gets that terse message they know where to start 
looking :)