[Idle-dev] What we need, and how we can help

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

  GvR> Jeremy wrote:
  >> line((1,2),(3,4)  # error is here 
  >> line((1,2),(3,4)) # but is reported on this line
  >> 
  >> Not sure what this example is supposed to show.  What is the
  >> error?  Why are the two lines identical?

  GvR> The lines aren't identical -- the first one is missing a close
  GvR> paren.  The fact that you missed this shows how important it is
  GvR> to have a better diagnostic for this!

Sigh.  I guess that explains why I had to manually sync up the
comments to the same column after supercite reformatting.

Jeremy