[issue36376] Wrong position of SyntaxError in IDLE

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy  added the comment:

IDLE should display the same error message and mark the error at the same spot 
that Python tells it too, which is to say, what is display and where it is 
marked when running Python in a console/terminal.  The only difference is that 
IDLE uses red background highlight instead of a caret.  For 3.7.2, IDLE 
displays the same 'invalid syntax' message but mis-marks the position as you 
say. 

The latest 3.7.3rc1 and 3.8.0a2 releases on Windows, without and with IDLE, 
with code in file or entered interactively, correctly display "SyntaxError: 
unmatched ')'", with an improved message, and mark the stray ')'.  The only new 
IDLE patch that might have fixed this (accidentally, as a side effect) was 
#34055.  Or some detail of the info IDLE gets might have changed.

If you find another example that fails with or without IDLE, in file or at 
prompt, please give all details and copy and paste the traceback from both 
python and IDLE.

I make of note of this as a test case for a future error highlight test.

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status: open -> closed

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[issue36376] Wrong position of SyntaxError in IDLE

[Vedran Čačić]

Change by Vedran Čačić :


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[issue36376] Wrong position of SyntaxError in IDLE

[Vedran Čačić]

Change by Vedran Čačić :


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assignee:  -> terry.reedy
components: +IDLE
nosy: +terry.reedy
versions: +Python 3.7

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[issue36376] Wrong position of SyntaxError in IDLE

[Vedran Čačić]

New submission from Vedran Čačić :

Open IDLE, New File, put this inside:

'abcde\
')
x = 123456789

And try to Run Module. Of course, the syntax error is extra ) at the end of the 
second line. But it is not highlighted. What's highlighted is 123 in the third 
line. Some additional observations:

* the length of the first line determines somehow what's highlighted in the 
third one: the longer the first line, more to the right the highlight goes in 
the third;

* third line can be whatever you want, it just needs to be long enough for a 
highlight to appear;

* you can even have blank lines between them;

* the same phenomenon appears if you use triple-quoted strings instead of 
single-quoted with backslash line continuation.

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messages: 338432
nosy: veky
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Wrong position of SyntaxError in IDLE

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