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dis._try_compile: traceback printed on error in source argument is too wordy

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_try_compile function from dis module firstly tries to compile given source string with 'eval' mode and, if exception is occured, catches it and tries again with 'exec' mode. These actions lead to a long chained traceback if given string contains syntax/indentation error, because this string gets refused by compile in both 'eval' and 'exec' modes.
All functions/constructors from dis module that use _try_compile and accept source string as an argument (dis, get_instructions, code_info, show_code, Bytecode) are showing this behavior:

>>> dis.dis(')')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/.../cpython/Lib/dis.py", line 67, in _try_compile
    c = compile(source, name, 'eval')
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<dis>", line 1
    )
    ^
SyntaxError: unmatched ')'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/.../cpython/Lib/dis.py", line 112, in dis
    _disassemble_str(x, file=file, depth=depth, show_caches=show_caches, adaptive=adaptive)
  File "/home/.../cpython/Lib/dis.py", line 593, in _disassemble_str
    _disassemble_recursive(_try_compile(source, '<dis>'), **kwargs)
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/.../cpython/Lib/dis.py", line 69, in _try_compile
    c = compile(source, name, 'exec')
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<dis>", line 1
    )
    ^
SyntaxError: unmatched ')'

Python versions affected: 3.10.8, 3.11.0, current main.

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