New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a suggestion that would make the http://svn.python.org/view?rev=63068&view=rev look ever more clear. It would be better to have this kind of error messages:
expect = "End of line while scanning string (<string>, line 1)" and expect "End of f... while scanning multi-line string (<string>, line 1)" These messages really need to be clear, so putting EOF for example (which I really don't know what it stands for) is really mind-bending. But if changing EOL and EOF to their actual meaning would cause some problems, then this look nice as well: expect = "EOL while scanning string (<string>, line 1)" and expect "EOF while scanning multi-line string (<string>, line 1)" The first two proposals look more readable because I think that many people don't know what EOF stands for (they can guess for EOL though, but EOF is just mind-bending and wild guessing). I Googled and found no answer, so I actually don't know what that error message is saying to me. Also, it would be good, however, to remove the 'triple-quoted string literal' and name that simply as 'multi-line string'. Simple is better than complex. :) Mister Rossum, please give a go on that. I kindly ask you to choose from the above two options. Your proposal on that was made, yes... but I find the 'multi-line string' even better than 'triple-quoted string literal'. I would love to provide a patch but I don't know how it's made. ---------- messages: 66652 nosy: chester, gvanrossum severity: normal status: open title: Quote-type recognition bug [badly fixed last time] versions: 3rd party, Python 2.1.1, Python 2.1.2, Python 2.2, Python 2.2.1, Python 2.2.2, Python 2.2.3, Python 2.3, Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2822> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
