change Python error messages for continued lines?
beliavsky at aol.com
beliavsky at aol.com
Thu Jul 8 16:01:26 EDT 2004
I have noticed a quirk of Python error messages that I think should be
changed.
The code
x = 1
print x,\
y
produces output
1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "xerr.py", line 2, in ?
print x,\
NameError: name 'y' is not defined
which is confusing at first because 'print x,\' does not contain a
'y'. When a Python error message prints a line that spans more than
one line of text, I think the entire line should be printed.
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