For what it's worth, after 20+ years of using Python, forgetting the colon for blocks remains the most common error I make by a fairly wide margin. Of course, once I see the error message—even being not all that descriptive of the real issue—I immediately know what to fix too.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 8:21 AM Σταύρος Ντέντος <stde...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello there, > > If I have simply missed a double colon starting a for loop > > File "./bbq.py", line 160 > for config_file in config_files > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > the message is not as straightforward. > > I am not sure what the status quo of these messages are, but: could it > be enhanced? > > Ντέντος Σταύρος > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/RMAZTJ3RO5L5RNHGTAPVE4UL2GXIWTSO/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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