From 777271da18c0e2319dcfc653bc6c65254d7f5b4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris White Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:47:45 -0700 Subject: improve lexing error (#32832) --- lib/spack/spack/parse.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2