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| author |   Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2024-03-11 18:01:08 -0400 |
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| committer |   GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-03-11 18:01:08 -0400 |
| commit | 3e45030076bf2cfab41c4456c73fb212b7322c60 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d0484abe6c939b73a436f6acfe97dc0697677e6 | |
| parent | gh-90095: Make .pdbrc work properly and add some reasonable tests (#110496) (diff) | |
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gh-116563: Update tutorial error example (#116569)
There now may be multiple carets pointing at a token
rather than just a character. Fix the sentence about
possible causes.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/errors.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst index 4058ebe8efd..0b9acd00fdc 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst @@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ complaint you get while you are still learning Python:: >>> while True print('Hello world') File "<stdin>", line 1 while True print('Hello world') - ^ + ^^^^^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax -The parser repeats the offending line and displays a little 'arrow' pointing at -the earliest point in the line where the error was detected. The error is -caused by (or at least detected at) the token *preceding* the arrow: in the +The parser repeats the offending line and displays little 'arrow's pointing +at the token in the line where the error was detected. The error may be +caused by the absence of a token *before* the indicated token. In the example, the error is detected at the function :func:`print`, since a colon (``':'``) is missing before it. File name and line number are printed so you know where to look in case the input came from a script. |