[3.11] gh-116563: Update tutorial error example (GH-116569) (#116625)

miss-islington · terryjreedy · web-flow · commit 830fbe9b6e60 · 2024-03-11T22:11:36.000Z
There now may be multiple carets pointing at a token rather than just a character. Fix the sentence about possible causes. (cherry picked from commit 3e45030) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ complaint you get while you are still learning Python::
    >>> while True print('Hello world')
      File "<stdin>", line 1
        while True print('Hello world')
-                      ^
+                  ^^^^^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
 
-The parser repeats the offending line and displays a little 'arrow' pointing at
-the earliest point in the line where the error was detected.  The error is
-caused by (or at least detected at) the token *preceding* the arrow: in the
+The parser repeats the offending line and displays little 'arrow's pointing
+at the token in the line where the error was detected.  The error may be
+caused by the absence of a token *before* the indicated token.  In the
 example, the error is detected at the function :func:`print`, since a colon
 (``':'``) is missing before it.  File name and line number are printed so you
 know where to look in case the input came from a script.
