New submission from Nigel Heron <ni...@psycode.com>:

when a syntax error is generated in py_compile.compile(), the wrong arguments 
are passed to the new PyCompileError exception which in turn passes the wrong 
args to traceback.format_exception_only() producing the wrong output.

this was fixed in the py3k branch (Revision 56901) but is still broken in 2.6 
and 2.7
the attached patch has the same fix but applied to the trunk.

here's a simple test case..

f = open('broken.py','w')
f.write("1 = a  #<-- obvious syntax err\n")
f.close()
import py_compile
py_compile.compile('broken.py')

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components: Library (Lib)
files: py_compile_patch.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 98766
nosy: nheron
severity: normal
status: open
title: py_compile.compile SyntaxError output
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16114/py_compile_patch.diff

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