From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:38:04 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Issue #16504: Catch SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer in IDLE.
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.1rc1~474^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=07e0e06f8a255a73d181e332dd8658814eb1ca50;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #16504: Catch SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer in IDLE.

Patch by Roger Serwy.
---

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
index 48aabc8f69aa..16f63c52a40b 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
@@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@ class IndentSearcher(object):
                 tokens = _tokenize.generate_tokens(self.readline)
                 for token in tokens:
                     self.tokeneater(*token)
-            except _tokenize.TokenError:
+            except (_tokenize.TokenError, SyntaxError):
                 # since we cut off the tokenizer early, we can trigger
                 # spurious errors
                 pass
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 08d3e36c81c8..d13a40646a5b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
+  Roger Serwy.
+
 - Issue #16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes
   regarding leading dots.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.