New submission from Nick Coghlan: A problem we're starting to see on distutils-sig is folks trying to type pip commands into the Python REPL rather than their system shell, and getting cryptic syntax errors back:
>>> pip install requests File "<stdin>", line 1 pip install requests ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> python -m pip install requests File "<stdin>", line 1 python -m pip install requests ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax This may be amenable to a similar solution to the one we used to give a custom error message for "print ": >>> print foo File "<stdin>", line 1 print foo ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print' That code currently checks for "print " and "exec ", so it would be a matter of adding another special case that looked for "pip install " appearing anywhere in the string that's failing to compile (it can't be limited to the start as it may be an attempt to invoke pip via "-m") ---------- messages: 276373 nosy: ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Attempt to give better errors for shell commands typed into the REPL type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28140> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com