I have a suggestion that would make the
http://svn.python.org/view?rev=63068&view=rev look ever more clear. It
would be better to have this kind of error messages:

expect = "End of line while scanning string (<string>, line 1)"

and

expect "End of f... while scanning multi-line string (<string>, line 1)"


These messages really need to be clear, so putting EOF for example
(which I really don't know what it stands for) is really mind-bending.
But if changing EOL and EOF to their actual meaning would cause some
problems, then this look nice as well:

expect = "EOL while scanning string (<string>, line 1)"

and

expect "EOF while scanning multi-line string (<string>, line 1)"

The first two proposals look more readable because I think that many
people don't know what EOF stands for (they can guess for EOL though,
but EOF is just mind-bending and wild guessing). I Googled and found no
answer, so I actually don't know what that error message is saying to me.

Also, it would be good, however, to remove the 'triple-quoted string
literal' and name that simply as 'multi-line string'. Simple is better
than complex. :)

Mister Rossum, please give a go on that. I kindly ask you to choose from
the above two options. Your proposal on that was made, yes... but I find
the 'multi-line string' even better than 'triple-quoted string literal'.

I would love to provide a patch but I don't know how it's made.