This is also so with "import". VARIABLE.import
Schimon On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:50:41 +1100 Chris Angelico via Python-list <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 at 22:47, Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > As for the error message, I agree that "SyntaxError: invalid > > syntax" is a pretty uninformative message. Python error messages in > > general have become very good over the last few years, so that > > feels like a bit of a throwback. I think it would be generally > > useful to improve that message (maybe something like "expected > > identfier, got reserved word 'class'"). > > I wouldn't call it a throwback. Every improvement to the error > messages happened because someone wrote code to detect a specific > category of error and give a more helpful message. So this is just one > that hasn't been done yet. Someone just needs to write the PR. > > Though, given that most people write code with an editor that knows > Python keywords, and even the REPL will colorize things if your > terminal supports it (as of 3.13), this might not be so big an issue > in practice. > > ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
