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

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

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

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