[issue28964] AST literal_eval exceptions provide no information about line number

[Steve Merritt]

Steve Merritt added the comment:

We're using Python dictionaries to express sizeable (read: 100-600 lines)
chunks of configuration data. We previously used JSON, but we now use
Jinja2 to template chunks of this configuration data, and JSON's inability
to handle trailing commas creates a problem here. So we've been using
ast.literal_eval, but the lack of line numbers makes debugging problems
with the configurations a painful process.

On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 2:41 AM Serhiy Storchaka <report at bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
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> Usually literal_eval() is used with short one-line input. For what large
> documents do you use it?
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