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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/spack/parse.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/parse.py b/lib/spack/spack/parse.py index 10f460e776..61260bc837 100644 --- a/lib/spack/spack/parse.py +++ b/lib/spack/spack/parse.py @@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ class Lexer(object): break if remainder and not remainder_used: - raise LexError("Invalid character", word, word.index(remainder)) + msg = "Invalid character, '{0}',".format(remainder[0]) + msg += " in '{0}' at index {1}".format(word, word.index(remainder)) + raise LexError(msg, word, word.index(remainder)) return tokens |