`debug print(` will make pdb crash with a SyntaxError:

    % python -c '__import__("pdb").set_trace()'          
    --Return--
    > <string>(1)<module>()->None
    (Pdb) print(
    *** SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing
    (Pdb) debug print(
    ENTERING RECURSIVE DEBUGGER
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/bdb.py", line 92, in trace_dispatch
        return self.dispatch_return(frame, arg)
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/bdb.py", line 151, in dispatch_return
        self.user_return(frame, arg)
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/pdb.py", line 293, in user_return
        self.interaction(frame, None)
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/pdb.py", line 352, in interaction
        self._cmdloop()
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/pdb.py", line 321, in _cmdloop
        self.cmdloop()
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/cmd.py", line 138, in cmdloop
        stop = self.onecmd(line)
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/pdb.py", line 418, in onecmd
        return cmd.Cmd.onecmd(self, line)
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/cmd.py", line 217, in onecmd
        return func(arg)
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/pdb.py", line 1099, in do_debug
        sys.call_tracing(p.run, (arg, globals, locals))
      File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/bdb.py", line 582, in run
        cmd = compile(cmd, "<string>", "exec")
      File "<string>", line 1
        print(
             ^
    SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

ping reviewer :-)

I test this PR and work fine on Ubuntu 18.04

New changeset 4327705cfab3eb09073ec828570bbd8f789e1611 by Miss Islington (bot) (Daniel Hahler) in branch 'master':
bpo-35931: Gracefully handle SyntaxError in pdb debug command (GH-11782)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4327705cfab3eb09073ec828570bbd8f789e1611

New changeset 6f352199e4447764bc472e34352d0dff4db8a52d by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
bpo-35931: Gracefully handle SyntaxError in pdb debug command (GH-11782)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6f352199e4447764bc472e34352d0dff4db8a52d

Thanks for the patch!

Thanks for the review and backport!

Re-opening: it currently still crashes with a NameError when using "debug doesnotexist", or "debug doesnotexist()".

Will create a new PR for this.

Bumping.

The first (merged) patch is not sufficient, and causes even an API breakage, because it disallows passing in a code object (via compile()) anymore.

A better fix is waiting at https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/12103, and should also get backported to for 3.7.3 then (or the first backport being reverted).

Example of the API breakage:

```
/opt/python/3.8-dev/lib/python3.8/pdb.py:321: in _cmdloop
    self.cmdloop()
/opt/python/3.8-dev/lib/python3.8/cmd.py:138: in cmdloop
    stop = self.onecmd(line)
/opt/python/3.8-dev/lib/python3.8/pdb.py:418: in onecmd
    return cmd.Cmd.onecmd(self, line)
/opt/python/3.8-dev/lib/python3.8/cmd.py:217: in onecmd
    return func(arg)
pdb.py:699: in do_debug
    return orig_do_debug(self, cmd)
/opt/python/3.8-dev/lib/python3.8/pdb.py:1097: in do_debug
    code = compile(arg, "<string>", "exec")
E   TypeError: compile() arg 1 must be a string, bytes or AST object
```

(via https://travis-ci.org/antocuni/pdb/jobs/504061679#L367)

New changeset 3e936431e23b424b1e4665e8165c245924f0ab02 by Miss Islington (bot) (Daniel Hahler) in branch 'master':
bpo-35931: Gracefully handle any exception in pdb debug command (GH-12103)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3e936431e23b424b1e4665e8165c245924f0ab02

New changeset 1c4580d1f563173f5d6ec990b46bd38f4ae901a1 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
[3.7] bpo-35931: Gracefully handle any exception in pdb debug command (GH-12103) (GH-12285)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1c4580d1f563173f5d6ec990b46bd38f4ae901a1

Thanks for catching that and fixing it before 3.7.3!