I'm all for clear and helpful error messages, but this feels a tad too
verbose (and even a bit patronizing) to me. But the highlighting of
character look-alikes is very helpful.
Perhaps something like:
"""
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier
-->2: print(“Squares:”)
^
An identifier contains one or more unallowed Unicode characters.
It is likely the "curly quote" unicode quotation mark, rather than
the required ASCII single or double quote was used for a string.
"""
I'm assuming that this would detect some of the common "look alikes" and
give a specific suggestion as above.
Keep in mind that anyone coding Python is going to see a LOT of
SyntaxErrors -- we don't need to present a message as though they've never
seen such an error before. But it IS helpful to point out errors that are
hard to see with a glance at the code.
-CHB
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Christopher Barker, PhD
Python Language Consulting
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- wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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