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Unhelpful SyntaxError with unclosed call before colon #94034
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Ran into this today. If you forget to close parentheses as part of a call in the header of a for, with, or class statement (maybe others too?), the SyntaxError seems to indicate that you forgot a colon:
>>> for foo in bar(baz:
File "<stdin>", line 1
for foo in bar(baz:
^
SyntaxError: expected ':'It's not wrong, but could probably be improved. I personally find the pre-3.10 behavior more helpful:
>>> bar(baz:
File "<stdin>", line 1
for foo in bar(baz:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntaxEven better, though, would be a "smarter" error message like the existing ones we have for unclosed parentheses:
>>> bar(baz:
File "<stdin>", line 1
for foo in bar(baz:
^
SyntaxError: '(' was never closed
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pablogsal commentedon Jun 20, 2022
I think this will be fixed by #92894 (comment). @brandtbucher can you check (I'm away from the keyboard right now)? Otherwise I will do it later today :)
brandtbucher commentedon Jun 20, 2022
Looks like it might be. At any rate, I'll close this as a duplicate of #92858.