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Sometimes when Argument Clinic see something wrong, it raises exception and exit with printed traceback, instead of output helpful error message which points on line with illegal syntax.
I open this issue to report about such problems.
$ ./python Tools/clinic/clinic.py -f Modules/zlibmodule.c
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "Tools/clinic/clinic.py", line 3032, in <module>
 sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
 File "Tools/clinic/clinic.py", line 3028, in main
 parse_file(filename, output=ns.output, verify=not ns.force)
 File "Tools/clinic/clinic.py", line 1135, in parse_file
 cooked = clinic.parse(raw)
 File "Tools/clinic/clinic.py", line 1085, in parse
 parser.parse(block)
 File "Tools/clinic/clinic.py", line 2262, in parse
 self.state(line)
 File "Tools/clinic/clinic.py", line 2582, in state_parameter
 value = eval(py_default)
 File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'zlib' is not defined
zlibmodule.c is almost same as after applying patch from issue20193 (with several clinic bugs already fixed).