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This PR was implemented by Claude Code (Anthropic, Claude Sonnet 5), driven
interactively by a human maintainer of a downstream RustPython consumer
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and steered each step, and made the call to open this PR. The commit carries
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itself is small and self-contained (~30 lines in one function), and has been
exercised against CPython's test_flufl.py via the downstream consumer
mentioned below, plus a spot-check regression pass over test_grammar,
test_syntax, test_tokenize, and test_compile showing no behavior change
outside the two fixed cases.

Summary

  • ParseErrorType::ExpectedExpression currently surfaces as the raw ruff
    parser message (e.g. "Expected an expression") to callers that only depend
    on rustpython-compiler (no rustpython-vm). rustpython-vm's
    vm_new.rs already collapses this to CPython's generic "invalid syntax"
    for its own callers; this mirrors that same collapse inside
    cpython_parse_diagnostic_override so non-vm consumers get the same
    CPython-compatible message.
  • A bare <> outside Barry-as-BDFL mode (2 <> 3) lexes as Less then an
    unexpected Greater, so the resulting ExpectedExpression location points
    at the > — one character past where CPython's tokenizer (which treats
    <> as a single obsolete token) reports the error. Detect the <
    immediately preceding the location and shift the reported range back over
    it.

This is a companion to a RustPython/ruff PR implementing real
Barry-as-BDFL tokenizer support, which needs the offset fix here to make
CPython's test_flufl.py pass end to end. It's independently useful for any
caller hitting these two message/offset mismatches outside Barry mode too.

Test plan

  • Reproduced against CPython's Lib/test/test_flufl.py (via a downstream
    consumer, Pyre) — test_guido_as_bdfl and
    test_barry_as_bdfl_relative_import now pass with correct message text
    and offset.
  • cargo check -p rustpython-compiler passes.

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The compiler now reports obsolete <> usage as invalid syntax across both characters. Bare ExpectedExpression errors also use invalid syntax with adjusted source locations.

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Parse diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Normalize obsolete syntax diagnostics
crates/compiler/src/lib.rs
Parse diagnostics adjust ranges for obsolete <> operators and convert matching ExpectedExpression errors to invalid syntax.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~15–30 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0ada1

This change normalizes syntax errors and adjusts obsolete-operator locations, but the current range adjustment can report an invalid or incorrect location for inputs such as x < or < followed by another character. The PR is not merge-ready until the adjustment confirms that an adjacent > is present.

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In `@crates/compiler/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 391-398: Update the obsolete-token detection around the
ExpectedExpression check to require that the byte at start is an adjacent >
before returning the range; otherwise return None. Preserve the existing
preceding-< validation and only construct the range for the exact <> sequence.
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Comment on lines +391 to +398
if !matches!(&error.error, parser::ParseErrorType::ExpectedExpression) {
return None;
}
let start = error.location.start().to_usize();
if start == 0 || source.as_bytes().get(start - 1) != Some(&b'<') {
return None;
}
Some(("invalid syntax".to_string(), start - 1, start + 1))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require an adjacent > before returning the obsolete-token range.

Line 395 checks only the previous byte. For an ExpectedExpression at EOF after x <, the helper returns start + 1, which exceeds the source length. It can also classify another character after < as obsolete <>. Check the current byte before constructing the two-byte range.

Proposed fix
     let start = error.location.start().to_usize();
-    if start == 0 || source.as_bytes().get(start - 1) != Some(&b'<') {
+    if start == 0
+        || source.as_bytes().get(start - 1) != Some(&b'<')
+        || source.as_bytes().get(start) != Some(&b'>')
+    {
         return None;
     }
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if !matches!(&error.error, parser::ParseErrorType::ExpectedExpression) {
return None;
}
let start = error.location.start().to_usize();
if start == 0 || source.as_bytes().get(start - 1) != Some(&b'<') {
return None;
}
Some(("invalid syntax".to_string(), start - 1, start + 1))
if !matches!(&error.error, parser::ParseErrorType::ExpectedExpression) {
return None;
}
let start = error.location.start().to_usize();
if start == 0
|| source.as_bytes().get(start - 1) != Some(&b'<')
|| source.as_bytes().get(start) != Some(&b'>')
{
return None;
}
Some(("invalid syntax".to_string(), start - 1, start + 1))
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/compiler/src/lib.rs` around lines 391 - 398, Update the obsolete-token
detection around the ExpectedExpression check to require that the byte at start
is an adjacent > before returning the range; otherwise return None. Preserve the
existing preceding-< validation and only construct the range for the exact <>
sequence.

…stic offset

`ParseErrorType::ExpectedExpression` currently surfaces as the raw ruff
parser message (e.g. "Expected an expression") to callers that only
depend on `rustpython-compiler` (no `rustpython-vm`). `rustpython-vm`'s
`vm_new.rs` already collapses this to CPython's generic "invalid
syntax" for its own callers; mirror that same collapse inside
`cpython_parse_diagnostic_override` so non-vm consumers get the same
CPython-compatible message.

A bare `<>` outside Barry-as-BDFL mode (`2 <> 3`) lexes as `Less` then
an unexpected `Greater`, so the resulting `ExpectedExpression` location
points at the `>` -- one character past where CPython's tokenizer
(which treats `<>` as a single obsolete token) reports the error.
Detect the `<` immediately preceding the location and shift the
reported range back over it.

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