On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > Hi! > > On 2013-07-24, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Upstream does not allow the input transformer to fail, so either its a >> not-yet-implemented feature in IPython or we are abusing the IPython >> mechanism to parse the input where only trivial transformations should be >> done. Can you post this to the ipython mailinglist? > > What's the problem? Nobody forces us to let the preparser raise an > error. So, instead of raising an error, the preparser should simply > return the malformed input string, and then it is ipython's job to raise > the error.
But if one has something like "R.<x> = QQ[)" then the syntax error at the first . rather than the correct location. IMHO, IPython should let the input transformer reject input. - Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.