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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2011-04-12 23:33:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2011-04-12 23:33:28 (GMT) |
| commit | bd3e362089c9fab1028a1bf58b4e762851a32244 (patch) | |
| tree | f57c18c9571bc313369e755521f0432985b80a97 | |
| parent | 3780542039d109ae747816dae208208be93240d6 (diff) | |
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make assigning to a bytes literal a syntax error (closes #11506)
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_syntax.py | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Python/ast.c | 1 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_syntax.py b/Lib/test/test_syntax.py index 202770a..7faab91 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_syntax.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_syntax.py @@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ SyntaxError: can't assign to literal Traceback (most recent call last): SyntaxError: can't assign to literal +>>> b"" = 1 +Traceback (most recent call last): +SyntaxError: can't assign to literal + >>> `1` = 1 Traceback (most recent call last): SyntaxError: invalid syntax @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ Core and Builtins - Issue #5587: add a repr to dict_proxy objects. Patch by David Stanek and Daniel Urban. +- Issue #11506: Trying to assign to a bytes literal should result in a + SyntaxError. + Library ------- diff --git a/Python/ast.c b/Python/ast.c index 590bc90..d97e951 100644 --- a/Python/ast.c +++ b/Python/ast.c @@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ set_context(struct compiling *c, expr_ty e, expr_context_ty ctx, const node *n) case Set_kind: case Num_kind: case Str_kind: + case Bytes_kind: expr_name = "literal"; break; case Ellipsis_kind: |