REPL: Don't print the line that produced a `SyntaxWarning` if only a single line was given as input
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Description
Feature or enhancement
Bug description:
The old REPL had this behaviour:
~/dev/cpython (main)⚡ % PYTHON_BASIC_REPL=1 ./python.exe
Python 3.14.0a0 (heads/main:4606eff0aa, Jul 23 2024, 20:19:47) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> False is 0
<stdin>-0:1: SyntaxWarning: "is" with 'int' literal. Did you mean "=="?
False
The new one has this behaviour:
~/dev/cpython (main)⚡ % ./python.exe
Python 3.14.0a0 (heads/main:4606eff0aa, Jul 23 2024, 20:19:47) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 0 is False
<python-input-0>:1: SyntaxWarning: "is" with 'int' literal. Did you mean "=="?
0 is False
False
The new behaviour seems better if you've given a multiline function as input since, unlike the old REPL, it tells you exactly which line of code produced the warning:
~/dev/cpython (main)⚡ % ./python.exe
Python 3.14.0a0 (heads/main:4606eff0aa, Jul 23 2024, 20:19:47) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def foo():
... 0 is False
... 3 == 4
...
<python-input-0>:2: SyntaxWarning: "is" with 'int' literal. Did you mean "=="?
0 is False
...but it feels a bit redundant if, as in my first example, only a single line was entered as input. It took me a little while to figure out why the REPL was just printing the line I had typed back at me.
CPython versions tested on:
CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
macOS
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the single-line and multiline examples in the new CPython REPL and compare their SyntaxWarning output. Read the REPL warning-display path, then make the single-line case omit the echoed source while preserving the source line for multiline input; verify both behaviors with focused REPL tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100