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[3.12] Clarify that error messages are better with PEP 701 (GH-105150) #105169

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25 changes: 25 additions & 0 deletions Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
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Expand Up @@ -203,6 +203,31 @@ same quote as the containing f-string. Let's cover these in detail:

See :pep:`701` for more details.

As a positive side-effect of how this feature has been implemented (by parsing f-strings
with the PEG parser (see :pep:`617`), now error messages for f-strings are more precise
and include the exact location of the error. For example, in Python 3.11, the following
f-string raises a :exc:`SyntaxError`:

.. code-block:: python

>>> my_string = f"{x z y}" + f"{1 + 1}"
File "<stdin>", line 1
(x z y)
^^^
SyntaxError: f-string: invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?

but the error message doesn't include the exact location of the error withing the line and
also has the expression artificially surrounded by parentheses. In Python 3.12, as f-strings
are parsed with the PEG parser, error messages can be more precise and show the entire line:

.. code-block:: python

>>> my_string = f"{x z y}" + f"{1 + 1}"
File "<stdin>", line 1
my_string = f"{x z y}" + f"{1 + 1}"
^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?

(Contributed by Pablo Galindo, Batuhan Taskaya, Lysandros Nikolaou, Cristián
Maureira-Fredes and Marta Gómez in :gh:`102856`. PEP written by Pablo Galindo,
Batuhan Taskaya, Lysandros Nikolaou and Marta Gómez).
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