improve lexing error (#32832)

2022-09-26 15:47:45 -07:00
parent de9fc038f7
commit 777271da18
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/lib/spack/spack/parse.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/parse.py
@@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ def lex_word(self, word):
                break

        if remainder and not remainder_used:
-            raise LexError("Invalid character", word, word.index(remainder))
+            msg = "Invalid character, '{0}',".format(remainder[0])
+            msg += " in '{0}' at index {1}".format(word, word.index(remainder))
+            raise LexError(msg, word, word.index(remainder))

        return tokens