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  r85814 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-10-23 21:52:05 -0500 (Sat, 23 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  remove broken code accounting an offset the size of the line #10186
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3 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
index 17413db..d39322f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
@@ -296,6 +296,12 @@ class BaseExceptionReportingTests:
         self.assertTrue('inner_raise() # Marker' in blocks[2])
         self.check_zero_div(blocks[2])
 
+    def test_syntax_error_offset_at_eol(self):
+        # See #10186.
+        def e():
+            raise SyntaxError('', ('', 0, 5, 'hello'))
+        msg = self.get_report(e).splitlines()
+        self.assertEqual(msg[-2], "        ^")
 
 
 class PyExcReportingTests(BaseExceptionReportingTests, unittest.TestCase):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e2c424c..c505aee 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - Issue #10077: Fix logging of site module errors at startup.
 
+- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
+  of the offending line.
+
 - Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (eg. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expects
   filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape error
   handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 98cad37..10a1d50 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -1299,8 +1299,6 @@ print_error_text(PyObject *f, int offset, const char *text)
 {
     char *nl;
     if (offset >= 0) {
-        if (offset > 0 && offset == (int)strlen(text))
-            offset--;
         for (;;) {
             nl = strchr(text, '\n');
             if (nl == NULL || nl-text >= offset)