Provide a better message if pyflakes fails due to syntax errors in a python file.

- Legacy-Id: 8011
2014-07-01 21:12:03 +00:00 · 2014-07-01 21:12:03 +00:00 · 8aba7e97fc
parent c1db415498
commit 8aba7e97fc
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/ietf/utils/management/commands/pyflakes.py
+++ b/ietf/utils/management/commands/pyflakes.py
@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ class PySyntaxError(messages.Message):
    message = 'syntax error in line %d: %s'

    def __init__(self, filename, lineno, col, message):
-        super(PySyntaxError, self).__init__(filename, lineno)
+        try:
+            super(PySyntaxError, self).__init__(filename, lineno)
+        except Exception:
+            sys.stderr.write("\nAn exception occurred while processing file %s\n"+
+                "The file could contain syntax errors.\n\n" % filename)
+
        self.message_args = (col, message)