Getting syntax error instead of actual message of a thrown exception in Python

Issue Type: Bug

I keep on getting very strange behavior when I execute lines of code in the the DEBUG CONSOLE: I get a syntax error, instead of the actual message of the exception. Here is a very simple example of a code snippet, that intentionally has an error in it:

import pandas as pd
# this is incorrect, as it should be "data = {'values': [1]}"
data = {'values': 1}
df = pd.DataFrame(data=data)

If I run this with the debugger, I get the expected ValueError in line 4 (“If using all scalar values, you must pass an index”). However, if I run this in the DEBUG CONSOLE, I get a syntax error instead of the message from the exception:

SyntaxError('invalid syntax', ('<string>', 1, 4, 'df = pd.DataFrame(data=data)'))

Any ideas? I get this all the time, not just for pandas. This behavior makes is really hard to debug code, because of the actual error message, I just get this SyntaxError.

Note, I also posted a question here, but to no avail: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52861388/debug-console-throws-syntax-error-instead-of-showing-exception-message

Extension version: 2018.9.0 VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.29.0-insider (9e83209ed59a22df3d593735d04cc963396bb89e, 2018-10-18T05:17:36.900Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17763

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[brettcannon]

@jreynolds01 good catch, I’ll re-open the issue.

[DonJayamanne]

Upstream issue has been resolved, hence closing this.