Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> added the comment:

Actually anything before the last statement will cause this

>>> compile("\ndef foo(", '', 'exec')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "", line 2
    def foo(
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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