From 69ff900d9db390ac72441624deeac04ca51120f4 2013-03-04 22:47:27
From: MinRK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-03-04 22:47:27
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #2503: Fix traceback handling of SyntaxErrors without line numbers.

E.g. lxml generates such errors.

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diff --git a/IPython/core/ultratb.py b/IPython/core/ultratb.py
index 09c91bd..9e7406a 100644
--- a/IPython/core/ultratb.py
+++ b/IPython/core/ultratb.py
@@ -567,10 +567,14 @@ class ListTB(TBTools):
                 have_filedata = True
                 #print 'filename is',filename  # dbg
                 if not value.filename: value.filename = "<string>"
-                list.append('%s  File %s"%s"%s, line %s%d%s\n' % \
+                if value.lineno:
+                    lineno = value.lineno
+                else:
+                    lineno = 'unknown'
+                list.append('%s  File %s"%s"%s, line %s%s%s\n' % \
                         (Colors.normalEm,
                          Colors.filenameEm, value.filename, Colors.normalEm,
-                         Colors.linenoEm, value.lineno, Colors.Normal  ))
+                         Colors.linenoEm, lineno, Colors.Normal  ))
                 if value.text is not None:
                     i = 0
                     while i < len(value.text) and value.text[i].isspace():