[issue32575] IDLE cannot locate certain SyntaxErrors raised by f-string expressions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Syntax errors come from Python, not IDLE. Except for the pseudofile name ('' versus ''), the message is the same as the interactive interpreter. Anytime one thinks IDLE has a bug, one should check the standard interactive

[issue32575] IDLE cannot locate certain SyntaxErrors raised by f-string expressions

Eric V. Smith added the comment: This is not an IDLE bug, per se. There's a known problem with f-strings not producing the correct line numbers. See issue #29051. Unless Terry thinks there's something IDLE-specific here, I suggest closing this as a duplicate. --

[issue32575] IDLE cannot locate certain SyntaxErrors raised by f-string expressions

New submission from Dan Snider : For example the following f-string f'{1):.1%}' IDLE will scroll to the top of the file and highlight a random and irrelevant line (not sure what it's doing tbh). running the expression with `exec` makes it look like implicit