New submission from Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com>:
Tokenizing `' 1 2 3` versus `''' 1 2 3` yields different results.
Tokenizing `' 1 2 3` gives:
1,0-1,1: ERRORTOKEN "'"
1,2-1,3: NUMBER '1'
1,4-1,5: NUMBER '2'
1,6-1,7: NUMBER '3'
2,0-2,0: ENDMARKER ''
while tokenizing `''' 1 2 3` yields:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "prog.py", line 4, in <module>
tokenize.tokenize(iter(["''' 1 2 3"]).next)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tokenize.py", line 169, in tokenize
tokenize_loop(readline, tokeneater)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tokenize.py", line 175, in tokenize_loop
for token_info in generate_tokens(readline):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tokenize.py", line 296, in generate_tokens
raise TokenError, ("EOF in multi-line string", strstart)
tokenize.TokenError: ('EOF in multi-line string', (1, 0))
Apparently tokenize decides to re-tokenize after the erroneous quote in the
case of a single-quote, but not a triple-quote. I guess that this is because
retokenizing the rest of the file after an unclosed triple-quote would be
expensive; however, I've also been told it's very strange and possibly wrong
for tokenize to be inconsistent this way.
If this is the right behavior, I guess I'd like it if it were documented. This
sort of thing is confusing / potentially misleading for users of the tokenize
module. Or at least, when I saw how single quotes were handled, I assumed
incorrectly that all quotes were handled that way.
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messages: 135836
nosy: Devin Jeanpierre
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: tokenize module appears to treat unterminated single and double-quoted
strings inconsistently
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