[issue28140] Attempt to give better errors for pip commands typed into the REPL

Alex Waygood added the comment: Similar discussion in a newer issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue45721 -- nosy: +AlexWaygood, pablogsal, steven.daprano, terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue28140] Attempt to give better errors for pip commands typed into the REPL

Irit Katriel added the comment: On 3.11: >>> pip install requests File "", line 1 pip install requests ^^^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma? -- nosy: +iritkatriel versions: +Python 3.11 -Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7

[issue28140] Attempt to give better errors for pip commands typed into the REPL

Change by Tom Viner : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +8053 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue28140] Attempt to give better errors for pip commands typed into the REPL

Tom Viner added the comment: I am looking at this, as part of the EuroPython 2018 sprint. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue28140] Attempt to give better errors for pip commands typed into the REPL

Change by STINNER Victor : -- nosy: +yselivanov ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue28140] Attempt to give better errors for pip commands typed into the REPL

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[issue28140] Attempt to give better errors for pip commands typed into the REPL

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Given that this can be done with just an excepthook change, I'm going to suggest we make the change for 3.5 and 2.7 as well. -- versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue28140] Attempt to give better errors for pip commands typed into the REPL

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Paul Moore pointed out on distutils-sig that since this is mainly desired for the REPL, we can put the logic in the default excepthook rather than into the SyntaxError constructor the way we had to for "print" and "exec": def excepthook(typ, value,