[Python-Dev] Re: puzzled about old checkin to pythonrun.c

Jeremy Hylton writes:

You made a change to the syntax error generation code last August. I don't understand what the code is doing. It appears that the code you added is redundant, but it's hard to tell for sure because responsbility for generating well-formed SyntaxErrors is spread across several files.

This is probably the biggest reason it's taken so long to get things into the ballpark!

The code you added in pythonrun.c, line 1084, in err_input(), starts with the test (v != NULL):

I've ripped all that out.

Can you shed any light?

Was this all the light you needed? Or was there something deeper that I'm missing? -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Digital Creations