Syntax errors report the column number.

Close #2914

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c5ad2ecfe..b98f0e59f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ What's New in Pylint 2.4.0?
 
 Release date: TBA
 
+* Syntax errors report the column number.
+
+  Close #2914
+
 * Support fully qualified typing imports for type annotations.
 
   Close #2915
diff --git a/pylint/lint.py b/pylint/lint.py
index 809e2294b..f1ebd1a1e 100644
--- a/pylint/lint.py
+++ b/pylint/lint.py
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ import operator
 import os
 import sys
 import tokenize
+import traceback
 import warnings
 from io import TextIOWrapper
 
@@ -1176,13 +1177,14 @@ class PyLinter(
         except astroid.AstroidSyntaxError as ex:
             # pylint: disable=no-member
             self.add_message(
-                "syntax-error", line=getattr(ex.error, "lineno", 0), args=str(ex.error)
+                "syntax-error",
+                line=getattr(ex.error, "lineno", 0),
+                col_offset=getattr(ex.error, "offset", None),
+                args=str(ex.error),
             )
         except astroid.AstroidBuildingException as ex:
             self.add_message("parse-error", args=ex)
         except Exception as ex:
-            import traceback
-
             traceback.print_exc()
             self.add_message("astroid-error", args=(ex.__class__, ex))
 
diff --git a/pylint/test/test_self.py b/pylint/test/test_self.py
index b5000f98e..8fe3efe20 100644
--- a/pylint/test/test_self.py
+++ b/pylint/test/test_self.py
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ class TestRunTC(object):
         assert isinstance(output[0], dict)
         expected = {
             "obj": "",
-            "column": 0,
+            "column": 15,
             "line": 1,
             "type": "error",
             "symbol": "syntax-error",