Better tracebacks for exec and execfile

[Erwin S. Andreasen]

Stefan Franke <franke at ableton.com> writes:

> 1. I'm toying araound with a text templating engine containing
> embedded Python scripts. These scripts are run with exec.
> If they throw an exception, the traceback looks like
> 
>   File "<string>", line 5
>      e = a+c+b+
>                ^
>  SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I don't know how to make SyntaxError appear correctly, but for the
others you can use compile which lets you pass in a file name. You can
then exec the compiled string.

compile won't let you specify a start line number: for that I simply
added "\n" * start_line to the start of the evaluated string :)


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