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interpolated strings: align f-string and t-string diagnostics with CPython - #8601

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Summary

RustPython synthesizes CPython's syntax-error messages by re-scanning the source in
cpython_parse_diagnostic_override once ruff's parse has already failed. The scanner
shared by f-strings and t-strings misread several replacement-field states, which is
what #8495 reports.

Fixing that surfaced a second and larger problem. Because these scanners run only
after a parse failure, a scanner that misreads a valid literal makes that literal
take the blame for an error elsewhere in the file. Several of the field checks treated
the whole field as code, so a format spec containing ( or a comment containing +
was enough to move the reported error onto a perfectly good line.

Both are addressed against the rules CPython spells out in Grammar/python.gram,
Parser/lexer/lexer.c and Parser/pegen*. All CPython links below are permalinks to
197fdd7.

1. Replacement field states

invalid_fstring_replacement_field
gives four distinct answers, and the order of the alternatives is the priority. The
t-string twin
is the same rule with the prefix swapped. "the field has no content" and "the expression
failed to start" were collapsed into one branch here; they are now separate, and
lexer.c:1181-1192
is explicit that a field still open at end of input becomes expecting '}'.

input before after (= CPython 3.14)
f'{' expecting a valid expression after '{' expecting '}'
f'{1=}{;' expecting '}' expecting a valid expression after '{'
f'{1=}{1;' expecting '}' expecting '=', or '!', or ':', or '}'
t'{x=!}' invalid conversion character missing conversion character
t'{x!s:' expecting `}` expecting '}', or format specs

A conversion or format spec following = was never validated, and a format spec
following a valid conversion was skipped entirely; both now run the same checks they
would have run directly after the expression, as
invalid_fstring_conversion_character
being referenced after '='? implies.

2. Only the expression is code

fstring_format_spec
is a separate grammar rule from annotated_rhs. So inside a format spec a ( opens
nothing and a # selects the alternate form, while inside the expression a # starts a
comment that runs to end of line. Scanning the whole field for either produced
diagnostics against valid literals:

x = f"{1:#x}"     # was reported as: '{' was never closed
x = f"""{a # +
}"""              # was reported as an expression ending on `+`

The expression-level checks now stop at the field's top-level separator and skip
comments, and the literal is walked field by field rather than byte by byte so a {
inside a comment no longer opens one. A pre-existing instance of the same bug in the
line-continuation check is fixed with them.

The spec also has no {{ escape at that level, so nested fields inside a spec were
never checked at all. They are now, resuming past each nested field once checked —
recursing per { without resuming was O(2^depth) (a 110-byte source took 6.1s;
there is a regression test at depth 200).

3. Brackets and comments inside a field

lexer.c:1342
attributes a closer with nothing open to the literal (so it carries the prefix) while a
kind mismatch keeps the generic bracket wording (so it does not). Brackets opened in a
field were not matched at all before.

input before after
f'{a[4)}' invalid syntax closing parenthesis ')' does not match opening parenthesis '['
f'{3)+(4}' f-string: expecting '}' f-string: unmatched ')'
f'{1#}' unterminated string literal (detected at line 1) '{' was never closed

4. The literal's kind belongs in the message

lexer.c:1500-1514
parameterises the prefix with %c rather than duplicating the messages, and this
scanner shares the same structure — which is why the f-string cases move together with
the t-string ones here. Separating them would need an artificial branch.

input before after
t' unterminated string literal (detected at line 1) unterminated t-string literal (detected at line 1)
t''' unterminated triple-quoted string literal … unterminated triple-quoted t-string literal …

An interpolated literal that runs out of input with a field still open reports the brace
instead, per pegen_errors.c:18
— but only while the tokenizer is reading that field's expression. Past the field's own
: it is emitting FSTRING_MIDDLE again, so running out of input there is an ordinary
unterminated literal. And the field's own : is not the one in a slice, a display or a
lambda, nor is the field the innermost unclosed delimiter when a bracket is open inside
its expression. So this walk carries the whole delimiter stack:

main answers every row below with unterminated string literal. The third column is an
earlier revision of this branch, kept because the last four rows are what it got wrong
and what the delimiter stack is there to fix.

input CPython 3.14, and now earlier revision of this branch
t'{, f'{a, f'{a!r, f'{a= '{' was never closed unterminated string literal …
f'{ {1:2}, f'{d[1:2], f'{(lambda x: x) '{' was never closed unterminated f-string literal …
f'{a:, f'{a:>5, f'{a!r:, f'{a}{b: unterminated f-string literal … '{' was never closed
f'''{a:>5 unterminated triple-quoted f-string literal … '{' was never closed
f'{a[ '[' was never closed '{' was never closed
f'{(a '(' was never closed '{' was never closed

5. Mixed literal concatenation

Ruff reports a mixed concatenation only as a bytes/non-bytes mix, so t"x" b"y" arrived
as a bytes error where CPython names the t-string.

invalid_string_tstring_concat
is an invalid_ rule, reached only on the error pass
(pegen.c:964-974),
and strings
tries (fstring|string)+ ahead of it. That alternative consumes the concatenation's
leading run of non-t-string literals, so a mix among those raises from
_PyPegen_concatenate_strings
on the first pass and
suppresses
the t-string rule. So the precedence splits:

input CPython 3.14 before
t"x" b"y" cannot mix t-string literals with string or bytes literals cannot mix bytes and nonbytes literals
b"x" t"y" cannot mix t-string literals with … cannot mix bytes and nonbytes literals
"a" b"b" t"c" cannot mix bytes and nonbytes literals invalid syntax. Is this intended to be part of the string?
f"x" b"y" cannot mix bytes and nonbytes literals unchanged

Both messages are now decided in one place. The third row has to be emitted rather
than deferred to ruff's own error, because otherwise invalid_string_expression_error
further down the chain claims the concatenation with an unrelated message.

All 14 cases from test_tstring.test_literal_concatenation and both from
test_fstring.test_compile_time_concat_errors match.

6. Type names in the operand message

CPython uses tp_name for
str,
i.e. the module-qualified name; PyType::name() strips the module, slot_name() does
not. Builtin types have no dot in TP_NAME, so this only changes types that declare a
module.

input before after
t"a" + "b" can only concatenate Template (not 'str') to Template can only concatenate string.templatelib.Template (not "str") to string.templatelib.Template
"a" + t"b" … (not "Template") to str … (not "string.templatelib.Template") to str

7. Operators the scanner had no tokenizer for

CPython consumes ==, !=, <= and the rest as single tokens at
lexer.c:1280-1298,
before the = ever reaches the
debug-marker check.
The scanner has no such stage, so f"{a==b}" — valid code — was read as a field ending
early. Token boundaries are now inferred from the surrounding characters; the character
set is exactly the operators that end in =.

An expression also cannot end on an operator that still wants an operand, and CPython
points at that operator rather than at the brace. is not / not in are single
operators so the first word is pointed at, and ... is consumed in whole triples.

input before after
f"{a==b}" (valid) f-string: expecting '!', or ':', or '}' no error
f'{==a}' valid expression required before '=' expecting a valid expression after '{'
f'{a==}' invalid syntax (col 7) expecting '=', or '!', or ':', or '}' (col 5)
f'{a is not}' invalid syntax (col 9) same message, col 6
f"{...}", f"{.5}", f"{-.5}" (valid) reported as broken no error

This region has to be walked forwards: a comment's terminating newline is whitespace, so
trimming backwards from the end steps into the comment body.

8. Three refactor commits on top

Answering the review here needed changes that carry no behavior, so they are separate
commits and every one was checked by building its parent and diffing the two outputs.

  • f7c9f31 — the scanners returned Option<(String, usize, usize)> at 69 signatures and
    114 construction sites, which the consumer reassembled into a message and a range one
    call later. They return a CpythonDiagnostic now. bracket_syntax_error's fourth
    element and unclosed_replacement_field_error's Vec<(usize, u8, bool)> become
    BracketError and OpenDelimiter. One thing does change beyond packaging, and the
    commit message says so: TextRange::new asserts start ≤ end unconditionally, and
    building the range at the scanner puts that assert in front of scanners that never
    built one before.
  • cd39b1e8 — the operator-character list inside is_replacement_field_marker was
    inline and looked like is_dangling_operator_byte. It is named, moved next to it, and
    both are sorted the same way; they differ by three characters and neither contains the
    other.
  • 35beed5dunterminated_string_error had two exits, so the guard added in §4 had to
    be written twice. CPython's lexer spells the two conditions as one
    (lexer.c:1170);
    this now does too.

Verification

Ran on x86-64 Linux (WSL2, Ubuntu). t-string reference behavior is taken from the
vendored Lib/test/*.py and the pinned CPython source — note that a locally installed
python3.14 may be a beta that predates invalid_string_tstring_concat entirely.

Re-run at 35beed5d. The three refactor commits add one further check each: their output
is diffed against a build of their own parent, over a malformed-source corpus and over
every Lib/**/*.py that parses clean, each recompiled with a trailing $ so that a
scanner misreading valid code shows up as a moved line. All three are byte-identical.

check result
Lib/test/test_tstring.py 12/12, all 3 expectedFailure markers removed
Lib/test/test_fstring.py 90 OK, 7 markers removed (6 remain)
CPython message comparison, 27 diagnostics 27/27 match
mixed-concatenation precedence, 18 cases 18/18 match
unclosed field / bracket boundary, 29 cases 29/29 messages match
dangling-operator caret columns, 7 cases 7/7 match CPython
valid literals not blamed for a later error 24 shadow + 67 comment-tail cases, 0 false positives
valid expressions, 45 cases 1 false positive — starred tuple, pre-existing
whole stdlib parses (Lib/, 1728 files) 4 failures, all intentional bad-syntax fixtures
cargo test -p rustpython-compiler 27 passed
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets, cargo fmt --all --check no new warnings, clean
adjacent suites test_syntax, test_compile, test_exceptions, test_grammar, test_str, test_ast, test_tokenize, test_codeop, test_traceback, test_str, test_bytes, test_types all pass

Known gaps

All pre-existing, none covered by either test file:

  • a starred tuple (f"{*a,}") and a dict-unpacking display are still read as unable to
    start an expression;
  • f"{a===b}", f"{a b}" and f"{a,,}" need the longest valid expression prefix, which
    a character scanner cannot compute — f"{a b}" is CPython's "forgot a comma" rule;
  • the caret column still differs from CPython's, while the messages match. Over a
    49-case sweep of interpolated-string errors the messages agree 49/49 and the
    offset/end_offset pair differs on 42. It splits into four independent anchors:
    unterminated … literal (CPython points at column 1, the prefix letter; we point at the
    quote), expecting '}' (CPython points past the last token, we point at the {),
    expecting a valid expression after '{' (CPython spans the offending token, we point at
    the {), and the operator messages (CPython spans the whole operator, our end_offset
    is one past the start). assertRaisesRegex only inspects the message, which is why
    neither test file covers this. Left out to keep this reviewable;
  • Template.__add__ names the other operand with tp_name where CPython uses
    %T
    (identical for static types, divergent for heap types) — RustPython has no %T
    equivalent outside the C-API shim, so this is left for a follow-up;
  • a quote inside a format spec is still treated as a string delimiter.

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Per the AI policy: this patch was written with Claude Code (claude-opus-5), also
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Extent: Claude wrote the scanner changes, the added tests and the commit message, working
from the CPython sources linked above. I set the scope, reviewed the diff, and ran every
check in the Verification table locally on the platform above.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved syntax-error messages for interpolated strings, including clearer diagnostics for unterminated literals, invalid replacement fields, conversions, and mixed string types.
    • Added more precise handling for nested expressions, brackets, comments, operators, and unexpected characters.
    • Improved string indexing, whitespace splitting, tab expansion, and joining behavior across varied inputs.
    • Updated string and template errors to report accurate type names and offending values.
    • Improved compiler error output with clearer t-string diagnostics and CPython-compatible wording.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for nested format specifications and complex syntax-error cases.

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📦 Library Dependencies

The following Lib/ modules were modified. Here are their dependencies:

[ ] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_str.py (TODO: 5)
[ ] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_fstring.py (TODO: 6)
[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_string_literals.py (TODO: 4)

dependencies:

dependent tests: (no tests depend on str)

[x] test: cpython/Lib/test/test_tstring.py

dependencies:

dependent tests: (no tests depend on tstring)

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The compiler now produces CPython-aligned diagnostics for f-strings and t-strings. The VM updates t-string, string, and template error messages and improves string iteration, whitespace, WTF-8, and indexing behavior.

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Interpolated-string diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Literal-level diagnostic handling
crates/compiler/src/lib.rs
The compiler detects mixed t-string literals, unclosed replacement fields, and the specific unterminated literal kind.
Replacement-field scanning and validation
crates/compiler/src/lib.rs
Replacement-field parsing handles nested format specifications, comments, brackets, markers, conversions, stray characters, dangling operators, and bounded recursion. Tests cover CPython-compatible diagnostics, linear nested scanning, and later syntax errors.
Runtime diagnostic and string behavior alignment
crates/vm/src/vm/vm_new.rs, crates/vm/src/builtins/str.rs, crates/vm/src/builtins/template.rs, .cspell.dict/cpython.txt
VM diagnostics recognize t-string parse errors. String and template errors use slot-based or qualified type names. String operations update iterable joining, Unicode whitespace handling, WTF-8 tab expansion, and index bounds handling. The spell-check dictionary adds CPython terms.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4ddea

Unfinished triple-quoted t-strings can still be reported as syntax errors when incomplete input is allowed, rather than being recognized as incomplete input. This is a bounded parsing-diagnostic issue that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SourceParser
  participant CompilerDiagnostics
  participant ReplacementFieldScanner
  participant VMErrorAnalyzer
  SourceParser->>CompilerDiagnostics: report f-string or t-string error
  CompilerDiagnostics->>ReplacementFieldScanner: validate replacement fields
  ReplacementFieldScanner-->>CompilerDiagnostics: return diagnostic
  CompilerDiagnostics-->>VMErrorAnalyzer: provide compile error
  VMErrorAnalyzer-->>SourceParser: format final error message
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Pull request overview

This PR improves RustPython’s CPython-compatibility for interpolated string (f-string and PEP 750 t-string) diagnostics by refining the post-parse-failure rescan logic and aligning several error messages and caret targets with CPython behavior. It also updates related stdlib tests by removing expectedFailure markers that should now pass.

Changes:

  • Refactors the compiler’s interpolated-string diagnostic rescan to better model CPython replacement-field parsing (separators, comments, operators, nested fields) and avoid misattributing later syntax errors to valid literals.
  • Aligns SyntaxError/TypeError wording with CPython for t-strings (unterminated literal messages; mixed-literal concatenation precedence; template/str concatenation operand type names).
  • Removes @unittest.expectedFailure markers in Lib/test/test_tstring.py and Lib/test/test_fstring.py that should now be passing.

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Lib/test/test_tstring.py Removes expectedFailure markers for t-string behaviors now aligned with CPython.
Lib/test/test_fstring.py Removes expectedFailure markers for f-string syntax/diagnostic cases now expected to pass.
crates/vm/src/vm/vm_new.rs Adjusts SyntaxError message mapping for t-string unterminated literals and interpolated-string error formatting.
crates/vm/src/builtins/template.rs Updates Template concatenation TypeError text to use module-qualified type names (slot_name).
crates/vm/src/builtins/str.rs Updates str concatenation TypeError operand naming to use slot_name.
crates/compiler/src/lib.rs Extends/adjusts CPython-style diagnostic override logic for interpolated strings, including new tests and performance fix for deeply nested format specs.

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Comment thread crates/compiler/src/lib.rs
Comment on lines +5096 to +5116
interpolated_string_prefix(bytes, quote_start)?;
let mut index = content_start;
let mut open = None;
while index < content_end {
match bytes[index] {
b'{' if bytes.get(index + 1) == Some(&b'{') => index += 2,
b'}' if bytes.get(index + 1) == Some(&b'}') => index += 2,
b'{' => {
open = Some(index);
index += 1;
}
b'}' => {
open = None;
index += 1;
}
_ => index += 1,
}
}
let open = open?;
Some(("'{' was never closed".to_owned(), open, open + 1))
}

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Correct diagnosis, and this had already been rewritten by the time the review landed — the single open slot is now a full delimiter stack, for exactly the reason given here:

// One entry per unclosed delimiter: its position, its opening character, and — for a brace —
// whether that field has reached its format spec.
let mut open: Vec<(usize, u8, bool)> = Vec::new();

The bool mirrors the tokenizer's in_format_spec: only the field's own : sets it, so a : in a slice, a dict display or a lambda no longer ends the expression, and running out of input inside a format spec is an ordinary unterminated literal rather than an unclosed brace. Brackets and quotes are tracked too, since CPython names the innermost unclosed delimiter.

Verified against CPython 3.14 — the display cases this comment names among them:

f'{ {1:2}          '{' was never closed
f'{ {1,2}          '{' was never closed
f'{d[1:2]          '{' was never closed
f'{(lambda x: x)   '{' was never closed
f'{a[              '[' was never closed
f'{(a              '(' was never closed
f'{a:>5            unterminated f-string literal (detected at line 1)

18 inputs in that group, all matching, pinned by a unit test.

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Both review comments are addressed; replies with the details are on the threads.

  • unclosed_replacement_field_error single open slot — already rewritten as a full delimiter stack before the review landed. The entry carries the opening position, the opening character, and whether that field reached its format spec, mirroring the tokenizer's in_format_spec. Balanced braces in a dict/set display no longer clear it, and CPython's innermost-delimiter naming is reproduced.

  • stray_character / dangling_operator running before the separator is known — real, and fixed in eb42e6e. Only the dangling_operator check moved below the separator guard: CPython answers a stray character from the grammar even with no closing brace (f'{a;'), while a dangling operator makes the parser ask for one more token, which runs into the closing quote and is answered by Parser/lexer/lexer.c:1181 with %c-string: expecting '}'. Guarding both would have regressed the first set.

The branch is also split in two now: the runtime tp_name change is its own commit, verified to build and pass test_tstring/test_fstring on its own.

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tysm!
couple of nitpicks/questions and we can merge this:)

Comment thread crates/compiler/src/lib.rs Outdated
fn mixed_tstring_literal_error(
error: &parser::ParseError,
source: &str,
) -> Option<(String, usize, usize)> {

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Can we return Option<(String, Range<usize>)> instead, or even better a struct with those fields?

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Done in f7c9f31. The scanners return a CpythonDiagnostic { message, range } now — 69 signatures, 114 construction sites — and NormalizedParseDiagnostic::other / CompileError::from_source_error take it whole instead of reassembling it.

Went with TextRange rather than Range<usize> because the consumer needed one anyway (ParseError.raw_location), so this deletes a conversion instead of adding one.

I did look at just returning ruff_python_parser::ParseError, which is the same shape. Decided against it: these scanners run after ruff's parse has already failed and never hand anything back to ruff, so all 114 sites would have been wrapping a message in OtherError and both consumers would have widened to accept variants nothing constructs.

bracket_syntax_error had a fourth element for the unclosed-bracket flag; that's a BracketError now rather than a wider tuple.

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I replaced the frequently repeated tuples with CpythonDiagnostic and added the OpenDelimiter and BracketError structs to improve readability and make their purpose clearer.

Comment thread crates/compiler/src/lib.rs Outdated
start: usize,
end: usize,
prefix: &str,
) -> Option<(String, usize, usize)> {

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same, I think because this type get returned multiple times it's better to make it a struct

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Same commit, #8601 (comment).

Comment thread crates/compiler/src/lib.rs Outdated
.and_then(|previous| bytes.get(previous))
.is_some_and(|byte| {
matches!(
byte,

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isn't this is_dangling_operator_byte(...)?

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No — close, but three characters apart, and neither contains the other:

precedes_equals_in_one_operator   ! % & * + - / : < = > @ ^ |
is_dangling_operator_byte         ! % & * + - . / < = > @ ^ | ~

They're read off different things. One is "bytes that pair with a following = to make a single token", which comes straight from the token table — : is in it for :=, and . and ~ are out because .= and ~= aren't Python operators. The other is "bytes that make up an operator still wanting an operand", which is why . and ~ are in for a.b. and ~a.

Substituting is_dangling_operator_byte and rebuilding:

input CPython 3.14 today with the swap
f'{a~=b}' f-string: expecting '=', or '!', or ':', or '}' matches f-string: expecting '}'
f'{a.=b}' f-string: expecting '=', or '!', or ':', or '}' matches invalid syntax

cargo test passes either way — nothing covers ~= or .= — so it only shows up against a built binary.

cd39b1e pulls the inline list out under a name, puts it next to the other one, and sorts both the same way so the difference is visible. I left them as two complete lists rather than sharing the 13 characters they have in common: that overlap is two answers coinciding, not a set with a meaning of its own, and a shared list would tie each to the other's reasons to change.

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The two values are actually different. However, they look very similar even though the character order is different, which could be confusing. I’ve reorganized them and extracted them into constants for better readability.

content_start: usize,
content_end: usize,
) -> Option<(String, usize, usize)> {
interpolated_string_prefix(bytes, quote_start)?;

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@name-of-okja please discuss in your own tongue and do not delegate discussion to AI. If you refer AI response, please split yours and theirs

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Same commit, #8601 (comment).

name-of-okja added a commit to name-of-okja/RustPython that referenced this pull request Aug 30, 2026
Every scanner in `cpython_parse_diagnostic_override` returned a bare
`Option<(String, usize, usize)>` — 69 signatures and 114 construction sites of
message, start offset, end offset — which the consumer then reassembled into a
message and a range one call later. They return a `CpythonDiagnostic` now, and
the two things that consume one, `NormalizedParseDiagnostic::other` and
`CompileError::from_source_error`, take it whole.

The type earns its name. These scanners run *after* ruff's parse has failed, so
what they produce is not a parse error but a reconstruction of what CPython
would have said about the same source; nothing here ever hands one back to ruff.
Reusing `ruff_python_parser::ParseError` would have fit the shape — it is
`{ ParseErrorType, TextRange }` — but every one of the 114 sites would have
wrapped its message in the single `OtherError` variant of a ninety-variant enum,
widened `other` and `from_source_error` to accept variants no caller
constructs, and, being a foreign type, ruled out the constructor that now
carries the `u32` cast and its justification. The `OtherError` wrapping happens
once per consumer instead, at the boundary where this does cross into ruff's
vocabulary.

Two nameless tuples that carried more than a diagnostic get names, following
`CallArgFrame` and `AssignmentContext` in this file:

- `bracket_syntax_error` returned the message alongside a bare `bool` for
  whether the bracket was left open, which the caller needs apart from the
  message because ruff reports that case as an EOF error. It returns a
  `BracketError` now.
- `unclosed_replacement_field_error` walked its delimiter stack as
  `Vec<(usize, u8, bool)>`, where the third element decided whether the field
  had reached its format spec — `.2 = true` and `Some((_, b'{', false))` at the
  use sites. `OpenDelimiter` names all three.

The `source_error!` macro is untouched at the 34 call sites it already had and
drops to five lines. Two copies of its body had been written out by hand
(`invalid_number_literal_error`, `unterminated_string_error`) and fold into it,
bringing it to 36.

One thing does change beyond the packaging. `TextRange::new` asserts that its
start does not exceed its end, and it asserts unconditionally. Building the
range at the scanner rather than at the consumer therefore puts that assert in
front of the hundred-odd scanners that reach `NormalizedParseDiagnostic::other`,
which never built a range before — they handed their two offsets straight to
`source_locations`. A scanner that emitted a reversed span used to produce a
garbled location; now it aborts. Every site was read for this and each clamp is
anchored to a bound at or after its start, and neither two hundred thousand
generated sources nor eleven thousand mutations of stdlib files reached it, so
this is a latent invariant made loud rather than a new failure — but it is not
packaging, so it is written down here.

Otherwise a pure refactor: no diagnostic changes message, column or line.
Verified by building the parent commit and diffing its output against this one
over a malformed-source corpus and over every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean
(1728 files, each recompiled with a trailing `$` so a scanner that misreads
valid code shows up as a moved line) — byte-identical, and the count of files
where the reported line moves is 1149 on both. test_fstring, test_tstring,
test_string_literals, test_syntax, test_exceptions, test_grammar and
test_compile all pass.

Addresses the review on RustPython#8601.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
name-of-okja added a commit to name-of-okja/RustPython that referenced this pull request Aug 30, 2026
`is_replacement_field_marker` carried its list of operator characters inline, a
sixteen-line `matches!` wrapped around three lines of logic, and it looked very
much like `is_dangling_operator_byte` a few functions down — enough that a
reviewer asked whether they were the same set.

They are not, and neither contains the other. Written in the same order the
difference is three characters:

    precedes_equals_in_one_operator   ! % & * + - / : < = > @ ^ |
    is_dangling_operator_byte         ! % & * + - . / < = > @ ^ | ~

The two are derived from different things. One asks which bytes pair with a
following `=` to make a single token, so that the `=` is part of that operator
rather than the start of a debug specifier — read off Python's token table, and
`.=` and `~=` are not on it, while `:=` is. The other asks which bytes make up
an operator that still wants an operand, which is why `~a` and `a.b.` put `.`
and `~` there and why the separator `:` stays out.

So the list moves next to the one it resembles, under a name, both sorted the
same way, and each says what the other has that it does not. Neither is defined
in terms of the other: the thirteen characters they share are two answers that
happen to coincide, not a set with a meaning of its own, and a common list would
tie each to the other's reasons to change.

No behavior change: the extracted list is character for character what was
inline. Verified against a build of the parent over a malformed-source corpus
and every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean — byte-identical — and with
test_fstring, test_tstring, test_string_literals, test_syntax, test_exceptions,
test_grammar and test_compile.

Addresses the review on RustPython#8601.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5

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looks way better!

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@name-of-okja can you please merge the current main branch? we've fixed the CI

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Every scanner in `cpython_parse_diagnostic_override` returned a bare
`Option<(String, usize, usize)>` — 69 signatures and 114 construction sites of
message, start offset, end offset — which the consumer then reassembled into a
message and a range one call later. They return a `CpythonDiagnostic` now, and
the two things that consume one, `NormalizedParseDiagnostic::other` and
`CompileError::from_source_error`, take it whole.

The type earns its name. These scanners run *after* ruff's parse has failed, so
what they produce is not a parse error but a reconstruction of what CPython
would have said about the same source; nothing here ever hands one back to ruff.
Reusing `ruff_python_parser::ParseError` would have fit the shape — it is
`{ ParseErrorType, TextRange }` — but every one of the 114 sites would have
wrapped its message in the single `OtherError` variant of a ninety-variant enum,
widened `other` and `from_source_error` to accept variants no caller
constructs, and, being a foreign type, ruled out the constructor that now
carries the `u32` cast and its justification. The `OtherError` wrapping happens
once per consumer instead, at the boundary where this does cross into ruff's
vocabulary.

Two nameless tuples that carried more than a diagnostic get names, following
`CallArgFrame` and `AssignmentContext` in this file:

- `bracket_syntax_error` returned the message alongside a bare `bool` for
  whether the bracket was left open, which the caller needs apart from the
  message because ruff reports that case as an EOF error. It returns a
  `BracketError` now.
- `unclosed_replacement_field_error` walked its delimiter stack as
  `Vec<(usize, u8, bool)>`, where the third element decided whether the field
  had reached its format spec — `.2 = true` and `Some((_, b'{', false))` at the
  use sites. `OpenDelimiter` names all three.

The `source_error!` macro is untouched at the 34 call sites it already had and
drops to five lines. Two copies of its body had been written out by hand
(`invalid_number_literal_error`, `unterminated_string_error`) and fold into it,
bringing it to 36.

One thing does change beyond the packaging. `TextRange::new` asserts that its
start does not exceed its end, and it asserts unconditionally. Building the
range at the scanner rather than at the consumer therefore puts that assert in
front of the hundred-odd scanners that reach `NormalizedParseDiagnostic::other`,
which never built a range before — they handed their two offsets straight to
`source_locations`. A scanner that emitted a reversed span used to produce a
garbled location; now it aborts. Every site was read for this and each clamp is
anchored to a bound at or after its start, and neither two hundred thousand
generated sources nor eleven thousand mutations of stdlib files reached it, so
this is a latent invariant made loud rather than a new failure — but it is not
packaging, so it is written down here.

Otherwise a pure refactor: no diagnostic changes message, column or line.
Verified by building the parent commit and diffing its output against this one
over a malformed-source corpus and over every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean
(1728 files, each recompiled with a trailing `$` so a scanner that misreads
valid code shows up as a moved line) — byte-identical, and the count of files
where the reported line moves is 1149 on both. test_fstring, test_tstring,
test_string_literals, test_syntax, test_exceptions, test_grammar and
test_compile all pass.

Addresses the review on RustPython#8601.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
name-of-okja added a commit to name-of-okja/RustPython that referenced this pull request Aug 31, 2026
`is_replacement_field_marker` carried its list of operator characters inline, a
sixteen-line `matches!` wrapped around three lines of logic, and it looked very
much like `is_dangling_operator_byte` a few functions down — enough that a
reviewer asked whether they were the same set.

They are not, and neither contains the other. Written in the same order the
difference is three characters:

    precedes_equals_in_one_operator   ! % & * + - / : < = > @ ^ |
    is_dangling_operator_byte         ! % & * + - . / < = > @ ^ | ~

The two are derived from different things. One asks which bytes pair with a
following `=` to make a single token, so that the `=` is part of that operator
rather than the start of a debug specifier — read off Python's token table, and
`.=` and `~=` are not on it, while `:=` is. The other asks which bytes make up
an operator that still wants an operand, which is why `~a` and `a.b.` put `.`
and `~` there and why the separator `:` stays out.

So the list moves next to the one it resembles, under a name, both sorted the
same way, and each says what the other has that it does not. Neither is defined
in terms of the other: the thirteen characters they share are two answers that
happen to coincide, not a set with a meaning of its own, and a common list would
tie each to the other's reasons to change.

No behavior change: the extracted list is character for character what was
inline. Verified against a build of the parent over a malformed-source corpus
and every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean — byte-identical — and with
test_fstring, test_tstring, test_string_literals, test_syntax, test_exceptions,
test_grammar and test_compile.

Addresses the review on RustPython#8601.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
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…dd__

`str.__add__` and `Template.__add__` built their TypeError with
`PyType::name()`, which drops the module, where CPython formats `tp_name`:

    >>> t"a" + "b"
    TypeError: can only concatenate Template (not 'str') to Template

CPython 3.14 reports the qualified name and quotes the operand with double
quotes, as `Objects/unicodeobject.c` and `Objects/templateobject.c` do:

    TypeError: can only concatenate string.templatelib.Template
               (not "str") to string.templatelib.Template

`Template.__add__` also spelled its own name literally rather than taking it
from `PyClassDef::TP_NAME`, so the two halves of the message could drift apart.

Known gap: `slot_name()` still does not qualify a class defined in a module, so
`"a" + collections.OrderedDict()` names `OrderedDict` where CPython names
`collections.OrderedDict`. This affects both methods.

Unblocks test_template_concatenation in test_tstring.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
…ython

RustPython re-derives CPython's syntax diagnostics by scanning the source rather
than by translating ruff's parse errors, and the scanner shared by f-strings and
t-strings misread several replacement field states:

- A field that ran off the end of the literal (`f'{'`) was reported as an
  expression that failed to start, where CPython asks for the closing brace.
- A field whose expression cannot start (`f'{;'`) and one whose expression runs
  into a stray character (`f'{a;'`) both fell through to the missing brace
  message instead of CPython's two distinct ones.
- A conversion or format spec following `=` was never validated, and a format
  spec following a valid conversion was skipped entirely.
- Format specs were scanned with the `{{` escape rule that only applies to
  literal text, so nested replacement fields inside them went unchecked.
- Brackets opened inside a field were never matched, so `f'{a[4)}'` and
  `f'{3)+(4}'` fell back to a bare "invalid syntax".
- Comments inside a field were not recognised, so a `#` that swallows the
  closing brace was reported as an unterminated literal, and a comment in a
  multi-line field hid the expression behind it.
- Unterminated literals were named "string" whatever their prefix, and an
  interpolated literal left with a replacement field open reported the missing
  quote rather than the brace.

A field is only "never closed" while the tokenizer is still reading its
expression. Past the field's own `:` it is emitting literal text again, so
`f'{a:>5` runs out of input as an ordinary unterminated literal while `f'{a`
reports the brace. The field's own `:` is also not the one in a slice, a display
or a lambda, and an unclosed bracket inside the expression is what CPython names
rather than the field around it, so this walk tracks the whole delimiter stack.

Two messages were worded from the wrong branch of CPython's tokenizer. The hint
"perhaps you escaped the end quote?" is raised only where lexer.c handles a
literal without an interpolation prefix; its `%c-string` branch has just the
triple-quoted and plain forms, so pairing the hint with a prefix produced
`unterminated f-string literal (...); perhaps you escaped the end quote?`, which
CPython never emits. And a bracket mismatch inside a field dropped the
` on line %d` clause that lexer.c adds whenever `parenlinenostack[level]` differs
from the current `lineno`; the general bracket scanner in this file already
computed that suffix, so `f"""{a[\n4)}"""` now names line 1 as CPython does.

The rules these now follow are the ones CPython spells out in
Grammar/python.gram (`invalid_fstring_replacement_field` and its t-string twin)
and in Parser/lexer/lexer.c, which likewise parameterises the literal's prefix
rather than duplicating the messages.

Only a field's expression is code. A format spec is text, so a `(` there opens
nothing and a `#` selects the alternate form instead of starting a comment;
inside the expression a `#` does start one. Scanning the whole field for either
therefore reported diagnostics against valid literals, and because these
scanners only run once the source has already failed to parse, that let a good
literal take the blame for an error further down the file. Expression-level
checks now stop at the field's top-level separator and skip comments, and the
literal is walked field by field rather than byte by byte so that a `{` inside a
comment no longer opens one. A pre-existing instance of the same bug in the
line-continuation check is fixed along with them.

Ruff reports a mixed literal concatenation only as a bytes/non-bytes mix, so
`t"x" b"y"` arrived as a bytes error where CPython names the t-string. CPython's
`invalid_string_tstring_concat` is an `invalid_` rule, reached only on the error
pass, and `strings` tries `(fstring|string)+` ahead of it: that alternative
consumes the concatenation's leading run of non-t-string literals, so a mix among
those raises from `_PyPegen_concatenate_strings` on the first pass and sets
`error_indicator`, which suppresses the t-string rule. The t-string message
therefore wins for `t"x" b"y"` and the bytes message keeps precedence for
`"a" b"b" t"c"`. Both are now settled here rather than left to whichever scanner
runs next, which had been answering the second case with an unrelated
"Is this intended to be part of the string?".

A leading doubled `=` or `!` was read as a marker with an empty expression before it,
so `f"{==a}"` reported `valid expression required before '='` where CPython has no
expression to report at all. The same lookahead now guards that branch, and a
doubled `=` or `!` counts as an expression that cannot start.

A top-level `=` or `!` was read as a debug or conversion marker without checking
whether it belonged to a longer operator, so `f"{a==b}"` and `f"{a!=b}"` were also
read as fields ending early. CPython tokenises `==`, `!=`, `<=` and the rest as
single tokens before it ever considers the debug marker, so the separator scan now
skips a `=` that follows one of `= ! < > + - * / % & | ^ @ :` or precedes another
`=`, and a `!` that precedes one.

An expression cannot end on an operator that still wants an operand, and CPython
points at that operator rather than at the brace. `f"{a==}"`, `f"{a and}"` and
`f"{a.b.}"` fell through to a plain `invalid syntax`; they now carry the same
message and column CPython gives, reusing the scan that already handled `;` and
`$` for exactly this shape. `is not` and `not in` are single operators, so the
first word is what gets pointed at, and `...` is consumed in whole triples so
that `f"{....}"` blames the fourth dot rather than the first. The region has to
be walked forwards: a comment's terminating newline is whitespace, so trimming
backwards from the end would step into the comment body and read a triple-quoted
field whose comment ends in `+` as an expression ending in `+`.

That check runs only once the field is known to close, which is where a stray
character and a dangling operator part ways. A stray character is a finished
token, so the parser rejects it on the lookahead in
`annotated_rhs !('='|'!'|':'|'}')` and `f"{a;"` gets the separator message even
with no closing brace. A dangling operator instead makes the parser ask for one
more token, and producing it runs into the literal's closing quote, where
lexer.c answers from its `INSIDE_FSTRING(tok)` branch with
`%c-string: expecting '}'` before any `invalid_` rule is reached. So `f"{a and"`
is a missing brace while `f"{a and}"` names the operator.

A leading `.` was read as a character that cannot start an expression, so the
Ellipsis literal `f"{...}"`, the float `f"{.5}"` and its signed form `f"{-.5}"`
were reported as broken whenever the file failed to parse somewhere else.

`pegen` joins the cpython spelling dictionary, for the `_PyPegen_*` names these
comments cite.

Known gaps, none covered by either test file. Needing the longest valid expression
prefix, which a character scanner cannot compute: a starred tuple (`f"{*a,}"`) and
a dict-unpacking display are read as unable to start an expression, and
`f"{a===b}"`, `f"{a b}"` and `f"{a,,}"` fall through to a bare `invalid syntax`.
The caret still differs from CPython's on `expecting a valid expression after '{'`,
`expecting '}'`, `expecting '}', or format specs` and `unterminated ... literal`,
and on the messages CPython points at a whole token for, such as
`f"{lambda x: x}"` and `f"{x! r}"`. A quote inside a format spec is still treated
as a string delimiter.

Two more are reachable only through a t-string concatenation that ruff does not
report as a bytes mix, so `mixed_tstring_literal_error` never runs: three or more
literals with no bytes literal among them (`t"a" t"b" "c"`, `"a" "b" t"c"`) answer
with `invalid syntax. Is this intended to be part of the string?`, and so does a
tokenizer-level nesting overflow where CPython has
`too many nested f-strings or t-strings`. Two-literal mixes are correct because
ruff's own error carries the wording.

Two pre-existing bugs outside this change are worth naming, since it touches
their neighbourhood. `unterminated triple-quoted ... literal` reports
`detected at line 2` for a one-line source where CPython reports line 1, for every
prefix including none, so it is in the shared line arithmetic rather than the
interpolated path. And `str.__add__`'s message is unreachable for an operand that
defines `__radd__`: `"a" + 1` falls through to the generic
`unsupported operand type(s)` from the binop dispatch, where CPython has
`can only concatenate str (not "int") to str`.

Unblocks test_syntax_errors and test_literal_concatenation in test_tstring, and
test_comments,
test_conversions, test_invalid_syntax_error_message, test_mismatched_braces,
test_mismatched_parens, test_parens_in_expressions and
test_syntax_error_after_debug in test_fstring.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
Every scanner in `cpython_parse_diagnostic_override` returned a bare
`Option<(String, usize, usize)>` — 69 signatures and 114 construction sites of
message, start offset, end offset — which the consumer then reassembled into a
message and a range one call later. They return a `CpythonDiagnostic` now, and
the two things that consume one, `NormalizedParseDiagnostic::other` and
`CompileError::from_source_error`, take it whole.

The type earns its name. These scanners run *after* ruff's parse has failed, so
what they produce is not a parse error but a reconstruction of what CPython
would have said about the same source; nothing here ever hands one back to ruff.
Reusing `ruff_python_parser::ParseError` would have fit the shape — it is
`{ ParseErrorType, TextRange }` — but every one of the 114 sites would have
wrapped its message in the single `OtherError` variant of a ninety-variant enum,
widened `other` and `from_source_error` to accept variants no caller
constructs, and, being a foreign type, ruled out the constructor that now
carries the `u32` cast and its justification. The `OtherError` wrapping happens
once per consumer instead, at the boundary where this does cross into ruff's
vocabulary.

Two nameless tuples that carried more than a diagnostic get names, following
`CallArgFrame` and `AssignmentContext` in this file:

- `bracket_syntax_error` returned the message alongside a bare `bool` for
  whether the bracket was left open, which the caller needs apart from the
  message because ruff reports that case as an EOF error. It returns a
  `BracketError` now.
- `unclosed_replacement_field_error` walked its delimiter stack as
  `Vec<(usize, u8, bool)>`, where the third element decided whether the field
  had reached its format spec — `.2 = true` and `Some((_, b'{', false))` at the
  use sites. `OpenDelimiter` names all three.

The `source_error!` macro is untouched at the 34 call sites it already had and
drops to five lines. Two copies of its body had been written out by hand
(`invalid_number_literal_error`, `unterminated_string_error`) and fold into it,
bringing it to 36.

One thing does change beyond the packaging. `TextRange::new` asserts that its
start does not exceed its end, and it asserts unconditionally. Building the
range at the scanner rather than at the consumer therefore puts that assert in
front of the hundred-odd scanners that reach `NormalizedParseDiagnostic::other`,
which never built a range before — they handed their two offsets straight to
`source_locations`. A scanner that emitted a reversed span used to produce a
garbled location; now it aborts. Every site was read for this and each clamp is
anchored to a bound at or after its start, and neither two hundred thousand
generated sources nor eleven thousand mutations of stdlib files reached it, so
this is a latent invariant made loud rather than a new failure — but it is not
packaging, so it is written down here.

Otherwise a pure refactor: no diagnostic changes message, column or line.
Verified by building the parent commit and diffing its output against this one
over a malformed-source corpus and over every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean
(1728 files, each recompiled with a trailing `$` so a scanner that misreads
valid code shows up as a moved line) — byte-identical, and the count of files
where the reported line moves is 1149 on both. test_fstring, test_tstring,
test_string_literals, test_syntax, test_exceptions, test_grammar and
test_compile all pass.

Addresses the review on RustPython#8601.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
`is_replacement_field_marker` carried its list of operator characters inline, a
sixteen-line `matches!` wrapped around three lines of logic, and it looked very
much like `is_dangling_operator_byte` a few functions down — enough that a
reviewer asked whether they were the same set.

They are not, and neither contains the other. Written in the same order the
difference is three characters:

    precedes_equals_in_one_operator   ! % & * + - / : < = > @ ^ |
    is_dangling_operator_byte         ! % & * + - . / < = > @ ^ | ~

The two are derived from different things. One asks which bytes pair with a
following `=` to make a single token, so that the `=` is part of that operator
rather than the start of a debug specifier — read off Python's token table, and
`.=` and `~=` are not on it, while `:=` is. The other asks which bytes make up
an operator that still wants an operand, which is why `~a` and `a.b.` put `.`
and `~` there and why the separator `:` stays out.

So the list moves next to the one it resembles, under a name, both sorted the
same way, and each says what the other has that it does not. Neither is defined
in terms of the other: the thirteen characters they share are two answers that
happen to coincide, not a set with a meaning of its own, and a common list would
tie each to the other's reasons to change.

No behavior change: the extracted list is character for character what was
inline. Verified against a build of the parent over a malformed-source corpus
and every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean — byte-identical — and with
test_fstring, test_tstring, test_string_literals, test_syntax, test_exceptions,
test_grammar and test_compile.

Addresses the review on RustPython#8601.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
A single-quoted literal that meets a newline and one that runs off the end of
the source are the same failure, and CPython's lexer says so in one condition:

    if (c == EOF || (quote_size == 1 && c == '\n')) {

Everything after that — the check for a replacement field left open, and the
choice of message — is written once there. This scan had grown a second exit
for the newline case with its own copy of both, so the guard added for
interpolated literals had to be added twice and the message assembled twice.

The newline case now breaks out of the scan and falls into the exit that was
already handling end of source. `line` cannot have moved from `start_line` on
that path, and `quote_size` is 1, so the surviving exit computes the same
`detected_line` and the same `triple` the deleted one did.

No behavior change: verified against a build of the parent over a
malformed-source corpus and every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean —
byte-identical — and with test_fstring, test_tstring, test_string_literals,
test_syntax, test_exceptions, test_grammar and test_compile.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
…plete input

`analyze_compile_error` pairs the f-string and t-string error variants
everywhere it names a message, but the match that decides whether a failure is
a `SyntaxError` or an `IncompleteInputError` listed only the f-string one. So a
`t'''` typed at the prompt would not have asked for another line where an
`f'''` would.

Would not have, rather than does not: the arm is unreachable today. The
compiler's `unterminated_string_error` scanner claims these first and hands
back an `OtherError`, so `f'''` and a bare `'''` get a `SyntaxError` at the
prompt too, on `main` as much as here — which is why
`test_codeop.test_incomplete` carries an `expectedFailure`. Whoever untangles
that precedence should not then find that f-strings work and t-strings
silently do not.

CPython does not separate the two either: `lexer.c` emits one message
parameterised with `%c` for the prefix and sets `E_EOFS` the same way for both,
and `_is_end_of_source` (`Parser/pegen.c`) looks only at that code, never at
which kind of literal produced it.

No behavior change, and none is testable while the arm cannot be reached.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
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…ython (#8601)

* builtins: name the other operand with tp_name in str and Template __add__

`str.__add__` and `Template.__add__` built their TypeError with
`PyType::name()`, which drops the module, where CPython formats `tp_name`:

    >>> t"a" + "b"
    TypeError: can only concatenate Template (not 'str') to Template

CPython 3.14 reports the qualified name and quotes the operand with double
quotes, as `Objects/unicodeobject.c` and `Objects/templateobject.c` do:

    TypeError: can only concatenate string.templatelib.Template
               (not "str") to string.templatelib.Template

`Template.__add__` also spelled its own name literally rather than taking it
from `PyClassDef::TP_NAME`, so the two halves of the message could drift apart.

Known gap: `slot_name()` still does not qualify a class defined in a module, so
`"a" + collections.OrderedDict()` names `OrderedDict` where CPython names
`collections.OrderedDict`. This affects both methods.

Unblocks test_template_concatenation in test_tstring.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5

* interpolated strings: align f-string and t-string diagnostics with CPython

RustPython re-derives CPython's syntax diagnostics by scanning the source rather
than by translating ruff's parse errors, and the scanner shared by f-strings and
t-strings misread several replacement field states:

- A field that ran off the end of the literal (`f'{'`) was reported as an
  expression that failed to start, where CPython asks for the closing brace.
- A field whose expression cannot start (`f'{;'`) and one whose expression runs
  into a stray character (`f'{a;'`) both fell through to the missing brace
  message instead of CPython's two distinct ones.
- A conversion or format spec following `=` was never validated, and a format
  spec following a valid conversion was skipped entirely.
- Format specs were scanned with the `{{` escape rule that only applies to
  literal text, so nested replacement fields inside them went unchecked.
- Brackets opened inside a field were never matched, so `f'{a[4)}'` and
  `f'{3)+(4}'` fell back to a bare "invalid syntax".
- Comments inside a field were not recognised, so a `#` that swallows the
  closing brace was reported as an unterminated literal, and a comment in a
  multi-line field hid the expression behind it.
- Unterminated literals were named "string" whatever their prefix, and an
  interpolated literal left with a replacement field open reported the missing
  quote rather than the brace.

A field is only "never closed" while the tokenizer is still reading its
expression. Past the field's own `:` it is emitting literal text again, so
`f'{a:>5` runs out of input as an ordinary unterminated literal while `f'{a`
reports the brace. The field's own `:` is also not the one in a slice, a display
or a lambda, and an unclosed bracket inside the expression is what CPython names
rather than the field around it, so this walk tracks the whole delimiter stack.

Two messages were worded from the wrong branch of CPython's tokenizer. The hint
"perhaps you escaped the end quote?" is raised only where lexer.c handles a
literal without an interpolation prefix; its `%c-string` branch has just the
triple-quoted and plain forms, so pairing the hint with a prefix produced
`unterminated f-string literal (...); perhaps you escaped the end quote?`, which
CPython never emits. And a bracket mismatch inside a field dropped the
` on line %d` clause that lexer.c adds whenever `parenlinenostack[level]` differs
from the current `lineno`; the general bracket scanner in this file already
computed that suffix, so `f"""{a[\n4)}"""` now names line 1 as CPython does.

The rules these now follow are the ones CPython spells out in
Grammar/python.gram (`invalid_fstring_replacement_field` and its t-string twin)
and in Parser/lexer/lexer.c, which likewise parameterises the literal's prefix
rather than duplicating the messages.

Only a field's expression is code. A format spec is text, so a `(` there opens
nothing and a `#` selects the alternate form instead of starting a comment;
inside the expression a `#` does start one. Scanning the whole field for either
therefore reported diagnostics against valid literals, and because these
scanners only run once the source has already failed to parse, that let a good
literal take the blame for an error further down the file. Expression-level
checks now stop at the field's top-level separator and skip comments, and the
literal is walked field by field rather than byte by byte so that a `{` inside a
comment no longer opens one. A pre-existing instance of the same bug in the
line-continuation check is fixed along with them.

Ruff reports a mixed literal concatenation only as a bytes/non-bytes mix, so
`t"x" b"y"` arrived as a bytes error where CPython names the t-string. CPython's
`invalid_string_tstring_concat` is an `invalid_` rule, reached only on the error
pass, and `strings` tries `(fstring|string)+` ahead of it: that alternative
consumes the concatenation's leading run of non-t-string literals, so a mix among
those raises from `_PyPegen_concatenate_strings` on the first pass and sets
`error_indicator`, which suppresses the t-string rule. The t-string message
therefore wins for `t"x" b"y"` and the bytes message keeps precedence for
`"a" b"b" t"c"`. Both are now settled here rather than left to whichever scanner
runs next, which had been answering the second case with an unrelated
"Is this intended to be part of the string?".

A leading doubled `=` or `!` was read as a marker with an empty expression before it,
so `f"{==a}"` reported `valid expression required before '='` where CPython has no
expression to report at all. The same lookahead now guards that branch, and a
doubled `=` or `!` counts as an expression that cannot start.

A top-level `=` or `!` was read as a debug or conversion marker without checking
whether it belonged to a longer operator, so `f"{a==b}"` and `f"{a!=b}"` were also
read as fields ending early. CPython tokenises `==`, `!=`, `<=` and the rest as
single tokens before it ever considers the debug marker, so the separator scan now
skips a `=` that follows one of `= ! < > + - * / % & | ^ @ :` or precedes another
`=`, and a `!` that precedes one.

An expression cannot end on an operator that still wants an operand, and CPython
points at that operator rather than at the brace. `f"{a==}"`, `f"{a and}"` and
`f"{a.b.}"` fell through to a plain `invalid syntax`; they now carry the same
message and column CPython gives, reusing the scan that already handled `;` and
`$` for exactly this shape. `is not` and `not in` are single operators, so the
first word is what gets pointed at, and `...` is consumed in whole triples so
that `f"{....}"` blames the fourth dot rather than the first. The region has to
be walked forwards: a comment's terminating newline is whitespace, so trimming
backwards from the end would step into the comment body and read a triple-quoted
field whose comment ends in `+` as an expression ending in `+`.

That check runs only once the field is known to close, which is where a stray
character and a dangling operator part ways. A stray character is a finished
token, so the parser rejects it on the lookahead in
`annotated_rhs !('='|'!'|':'|'}')` and `f"{a;"` gets the separator message even
with no closing brace. A dangling operator instead makes the parser ask for one
more token, and producing it runs into the literal's closing quote, where
lexer.c answers from its `INSIDE_FSTRING(tok)` branch with
`%c-string: expecting '}'` before any `invalid_` rule is reached. So `f"{a and"`
is a missing brace while `f"{a and}"` names the operator.

A leading `.` was read as a character that cannot start an expression, so the
Ellipsis literal `f"{...}"`, the float `f"{.5}"` and its signed form `f"{-.5}"`
were reported as broken whenever the file failed to parse somewhere else.

`pegen` joins the cpython spelling dictionary, for the `_PyPegen_*` names these
comments cite.

Known gaps, none covered by either test file. Needing the longest valid expression
prefix, which a character scanner cannot compute: a starred tuple (`f"{*a,}"`) and
a dict-unpacking display are read as unable to start an expression, and
`f"{a===b}"`, `f"{a b}"` and `f"{a,,}"` fall through to a bare `invalid syntax`.
The caret still differs from CPython's on `expecting a valid expression after '{'`,
`expecting '}'`, `expecting '}', or format specs` and `unterminated ... literal`,
and on the messages CPython points at a whole token for, such as
`f"{lambda x: x}"` and `f"{x! r}"`. A quote inside a format spec is still treated
as a string delimiter.

Two more are reachable only through a t-string concatenation that ruff does not
report as a bytes mix, so `mixed_tstring_literal_error` never runs: three or more
literals with no bytes literal among them (`t"a" t"b" "c"`, `"a" "b" t"c"`) answer
with `invalid syntax. Is this intended to be part of the string?`, and so does a
tokenizer-level nesting overflow where CPython has
`too many nested f-strings or t-strings`. Two-literal mixes are correct because
ruff's own error carries the wording.

Two pre-existing bugs outside this change are worth naming, since it touches
their neighbourhood. `unterminated triple-quoted ... literal` reports
`detected at line 2` for a one-line source where CPython reports line 1, for every
prefix including none, so it is in the shared line arithmetic rather than the
interpolated path. And `str.__add__`'s message is unreachable for an operand that
defines `__radd__`: `"a" + 1` falls through to the generic
`unsupported operand type(s)` from the binop dispatch, where CPython has
`can only concatenate str (not "int") to str`.

Unblocks test_syntax_errors and test_literal_concatenation in test_tstring, and
test_comments,
test_conversions, test_invalid_syntax_error_message, test_mismatched_braces,
test_mismatched_parens, test_parens_in_expressions and
test_syntax_error_after_debug in test_fstring.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5

* diagnostics: give the source scanners a diagnostic type

Every scanner in `cpython_parse_diagnostic_override` returned a bare
`Option<(String, usize, usize)>` — 69 signatures and 114 construction sites of
message, start offset, end offset — which the consumer then reassembled into a
message and a range one call later. They return a `CpythonDiagnostic` now, and
the two things that consume one, `NormalizedParseDiagnostic::other` and
`CompileError::from_source_error`, take it whole.

The type earns its name. These scanners run *after* ruff's parse has failed, so
what they produce is not a parse error but a reconstruction of what CPython
would have said about the same source; nothing here ever hands one back to ruff.
Reusing `ruff_python_parser::ParseError` would have fit the shape — it is
`{ ParseErrorType, TextRange }` — but every one of the 114 sites would have
wrapped its message in the single `OtherError` variant of a ninety-variant enum,
widened `other` and `from_source_error` to accept variants no caller
constructs, and, being a foreign type, ruled out the constructor that now
carries the `u32` cast and its justification. The `OtherError` wrapping happens
once per consumer instead, at the boundary where this does cross into ruff's
vocabulary.

Two nameless tuples that carried more than a diagnostic get names, following
`CallArgFrame` and `AssignmentContext` in this file:

- `bracket_syntax_error` returned the message alongside a bare `bool` for
  whether the bracket was left open, which the caller needs apart from the
  message because ruff reports that case as an EOF error. It returns a
  `BracketError` now.
- `unclosed_replacement_field_error` walked its delimiter stack as
  `Vec<(usize, u8, bool)>`, where the third element decided whether the field
  had reached its format spec — `.2 = true` and `Some((_, b'{', false))` at the
  use sites. `OpenDelimiter` names all three.

The `source_error!` macro is untouched at the 34 call sites it already had and
drops to five lines. Two copies of its body had been written out by hand
(`invalid_number_literal_error`, `unterminated_string_error`) and fold into it,
bringing it to 36.

One thing does change beyond the packaging. `TextRange::new` asserts that its
start does not exceed its end, and it asserts unconditionally. Building the
range at the scanner rather than at the consumer therefore puts that assert in
front of the hundred-odd scanners that reach `NormalizedParseDiagnostic::other`,
which never built a range before — they handed their two offsets straight to
`source_locations`. A scanner that emitted a reversed span used to produce a
garbled location; now it aborts. Every site was read for this and each clamp is
anchored to a bound at or after its start, and neither two hundred thousand
generated sources nor eleven thousand mutations of stdlib files reached it, so
this is a latent invariant made loud rather than a new failure — but it is not
packaging, so it is written down here.

Otherwise a pure refactor: no diagnostic changes message, column or line.
Verified by building the parent commit and diffing its output against this one
over a malformed-source corpus and over every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean
(1728 files, each recompiled with a trailing `$` so a scanner that misreads
valid code shows up as a moved line) — byte-identical, and the count of files
where the reported line moves is 1149 on both. test_fstring, test_tstring,
test_string_literals, test_syntax, test_exceptions, test_grammar and
test_compile all pass.

Addresses the review on #8601.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5

* diagnostics: name the operator-character set behind the debug marker

`is_replacement_field_marker` carried its list of operator characters inline, a
sixteen-line `matches!` wrapped around three lines of logic, and it looked very
much like `is_dangling_operator_byte` a few functions down — enough that a
reviewer asked whether they were the same set.

They are not, and neither contains the other. Written in the same order the
difference is three characters:

    precedes_equals_in_one_operator   ! % & * + - / : < = > @ ^ |
    is_dangling_operator_byte         ! % & * + - . / < = > @ ^ | ~

The two are derived from different things. One asks which bytes pair with a
following `=` to make a single token, so that the `=` is part of that operator
rather than the start of a debug specifier — read off Python's token table, and
`.=` and `~=` are not on it, while `:=` is. The other asks which bytes make up
an operator that still wants an operand, which is why `~a` and `a.b.` put `.`
and `~` there and why the separator `:` stays out.

So the list moves next to the one it resembles, under a name, both sorted the
same way, and each says what the other has that it does not. Neither is defined
in terms of the other: the thirteen characters they share are two answers that
happen to coincide, not a set with a meaning of its own, and a common list would
tie each to the other's reasons to change.

No behavior change: the extracted list is character for character what was
inline. Verified against a build of the parent over a malformed-source corpus
and every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean — byte-identical — and with
test_fstring, test_tstring, test_string_literals, test_syntax, test_exceptions,
test_grammar and test_compile.

Addresses the review on #8601.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5

* diagnostics: give the unterminated-literal scan one exit

A single-quoted literal that meets a newline and one that runs off the end of
the source are the same failure, and CPython's lexer says so in one condition:

    if (c == EOF || (quote_size == 1 && c == '\n')) {

Everything after that — the check for a replacement field left open, and the
choice of message — is written once there. This scan had grown a second exit
for the newline case with its own copy of both, so the guard added for
interpolated literals had to be added twice and the message assembled twice.

The newline case now breaks out of the scan and falls into the exit that was
already handling end of source. `line` cannot have moved from `start_line` on
that path, and `quote_size` is 1, so the surviving exit computes the same
`detected_line` and the same `triple` the deleted one did.

No behavior change: verified against a build of the parent over a
malformed-source corpus and every `Lib/**/*.py` that parses clean —
byte-identical — and with test_fstring, test_tstring, test_string_literals,
test_syntax, test_exceptions, test_grammar and test_compile.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5

* diagnostics: classify an unterminated triple-quoted t-string as incomplete input

`analyze_compile_error` pairs the f-string and t-string error variants
everywhere it names a message, but the match that decides whether a failure is
a `SyntaxError` or an `IncompleteInputError` listed only the f-string one. So a
`t'''` typed at the prompt would not have asked for another line where an
`f'''` would.

Would not have, rather than does not: the arm is unreachable today. The
compiler's `unterminated_string_error` scanner claims these first and hands
back an `OtherError`, so `f'''` and a bare `'''` get a `SyntaxError` at the
prompt too, on `main` as much as here — which is why
`test_codeop.test_incomplete` carries an `expectedFailure`. Whoever untangles
that precedence should not then find that f-strings work and t-strings
silently do not.

CPython does not separate the two either: `lexer.c` emits one message
parameterised with `%c` for the prefix and sets `E_EOFS` the same way for both,
and `_is_end_of_source` (`Parser/pegen.c`) looks only at that code, never at
which kind of literal produced it.

No behavior change, and none is testable while the arm cannot be reached.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
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