From 3e45030076bf2cfab41c4456c73fb212b7322c60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:01:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- Doc/tutorial/errors.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file 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 "", 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.