Error message for missing semicolon is unhelpful when the missing semicolon would be at the end of line

This file def hello(arg1="x", arg2="y"): print(arg1) print(arg2) var1 = "a" var2 = "b" hello( a b ) Shows the following error: File "[REDACTED]", line 12 a ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma? However, that is somewhat unhelpful, because the a is actually fine, and it the error needs more context to fully understand what is going on. In my case, the issue was in a call to argparse and the error was File "[REDACTED]", line 42 description="Au...