From: Pablo Galindo <Pablogsal@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 16:46:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: bpo-30858: Improve error location for expressions with assignments (GH-23753)
X-Git-Tag: v3.10.0a4~191
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=43c4fb6c90c013a00cb820cb61e4990cd8ec7f5e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-30858: Improve error location for expressions with assignments (GH-23753)

Co-authored-by: Lysandros Nikolaou <lisandrosnik@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/Grammar/python.gram b/Grammar/python.gram
index 9f4709491469..4915cc43e84a 100644
--- a/Grammar/python.gram
+++ b/Grammar/python.gram
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ invalid_arguments:
         RAISE_SYNTAX_ERROR_KNOWN_LOCATION(a, "Generator expression must be parenthesized") }
     | a=args ',' args { _PyPegen_arguments_parsing_error(p, a) }
 invalid_kwarg:
-    | a=expression '=' {
+    | expression a='=' {
         RAISE_SYNTAX_ERROR_KNOWN_LOCATION(
             a, "expression cannot contain assignment, perhaps you meant \"==\"?") }
 invalid_named_expression:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
index 1bdd3f2ce599..e752ab72ccff 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ class ExceptionTests(unittest.TestCase):
         check('from __future__ import doesnt_exist', 1, 1)
         check('from __future__ import braces', 1, 1)
         check('x=1\nfrom __future__ import division', 2, 1)
-        check('foo(1=2)', 1, 5)
+        check('foo(1=2)', 1, 6)
         check('def f():\n  x, y: int', 2, 3)
         check('[*x for x in xs]', 1, 2)
         check('foo(x for x in range(10), 100)', 1, 5)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_syntax.py b/Lib/test/test_syntax.py
index 91ca1db43a74..d8255607dcfd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_syntax.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_syntax.py
@@ -802,6 +802,13 @@ class SyntaxTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         else:
             self.fail("compile() did not raise SyntaxError")
 
+    def test_expression_with_assignment(self):
+        self._check_error(
+            "print(end1 + end2 = ' ')",
+            'expression cannot contain assignment, perhaps you meant "=="?',
+            offset=19
+        )
+
     def test_curly_brace_after_primary_raises_immediately(self):
         self._check_error("f{", "invalid syntax", mode="single")
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-13-15-23-09.bpo-30858.-f9G4z.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-13-15-23-09.bpo-30858.-f9G4z.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f2d06c3009ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-13-15-23-09.bpo-30858.-f9G4z.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Improve error location in expressions that contain assignments. Patch by
+Pablo Galindo and Lysandros Nikolaou.
diff --git a/Parser/parser.c b/Parser/parser.c
index b6c04953c899..2559969f86e5 100644
--- a/Parser/parser.c
+++ b/Parser/parser.c
@@ -14562,12 +14562,12 @@ invalid_kwarg_rule(Parser *p)
             return NULL;
         }
         D(fprintf(stderr, "%*c> invalid_kwarg[%d-%d]: %s\n", p->level, ' ', _mark, p->mark, "expression '='"));
-        Token * _literal;
-        expr_ty a;
+        Token * a;
+        expr_ty expression_var;
         if (
-            (a = expression_rule(p))  // expression
+            (expression_var = expression_rule(p))  // expression
             &&
-            (_literal = _PyPegen_expect_token(p, 22))  // token='='
+            (a = _PyPegen_expect_token(p, 22))  // token='='
         )
         {
             D(fprintf(stderr, "%*c+ invalid_kwarg[%d-%d]: %s succeeded!\n", p->level, ' ', _mark, p->mark, "expression '='"));