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@pablogsal pablogsal commented Dec 6, 2025

The keyword typo suggestion mechanism in traceback would incorrectly
suggest replacements when the extracted source code was merely incomplete
rather than containing an actual typo. For example, when a missing comma
caused a syntax error, the system would suggest replacing 'print' with
'not' because the incomplete code snippet happened to pass validation.

The fix adds a validation step that first checks whether the original
extracted code raises a SyntaxError. If the code compiles successfully
or is simply incomplete (compile_command returns None), the function
returns early since there is no way to verify that a keyword replacement
would actually fix the problem.

The keyword typo suggestion mechanism in traceback would incorrectly
suggest replacements when the extracted source code was merely incomplete
rather than containing an actual typo. For example, when a missing comma
caused a syntax error, the system would suggest replacing 'print' with
'not' because the incomplete code snippet happened to pass validation.

The fix adds a validation step that first checks whether the original
extracted code raises a SyntaxError. If the code compiles successfully
or is simply incomplete (compile_command returns None), the function
returns early since there is no way to verify that a keyword replacement
would actually fix the problem.
@pablogsal pablogsal merged commit ed4f78a into python:main Dec 6, 2025
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@pablogsal pablogsal deleted the gh-142236 branch December 6, 2025 21:09
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Thanks @hauntsaninja for the review

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