Improving syntax error messages
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Apr 26 20:56:14 EDT 2018
On 4/26/2018 4:22 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> What syntax errors did you see most often? Which of them looks the most
> weird? How would you like to improve their messages.
One way to research this would be to search stackoverflow.com for
"[python] SyntaxError". There are currently 8142 results, and they can
be sorted newest first.
The general 'invalid syntax' message must be most common, and perhaps is
the most puzzling.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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