diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d25e25ec2f94..41d90d0f967f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to ``file.writelines()``
   closes the file.
 
+- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length
+  of the offending line.
+
 - Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
   resolution.
 
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 7f63ae108cdf..f3b4e5044ea5 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -1045,8 +1045,6 @@ print_error_text(PyObject *f, int offset, const char *text)
 {
     char *nl;
     if (offset >= 0) {
-        if (offset > 0 && offset == (int)strlen(text))
-            offset--;
         for (;;) {
             nl = strchr(text, '\n');
             if (nl == NULL || nl-text >= offset)