Subject: Re: bug#30964: python-mode failing "overlapping strings" assertion lately

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 01:06:26 +0300

On 4/3/18 9:12 PM, Charles A. Roelli wrote:

>> I can _sometimes_ repro with (while (not (eobp))
>> (python-nav-forward-statement)), but I haven't found a reliable test case.

You could try calling (syntax-ppss-flush-cache (point-min)) before that, 
for instance, and see if that changes something.

Anyway, an example file should help, even if the problem shows up only 
intermittently.