[New-bugs-announce] [issue23518] Misplaced diagnostic caret for some SyntaxErrors

[Zack Weinberg]

New submission from Zack Weinberg:

I tripped over a couple of SyntaxError cases where the diagnostic caret is misplaced.

    >>> While x:
      File "<stdin>", line 1
        While x:
              ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The caret should point to the capital W in 'While'.

    >>> for x in the range(10):
      File "<stdin>", line 1
        for x in the range(10):
                         ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The caret should point to the 'the'.

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messages: 236560
nosy: zwol
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Misplaced diagnostic caret for some SyntaxErrors

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