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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_ast.py6
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Python/ast.c8
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ast.py b/Lib/test/test_ast.py
index e22d4de..2887092 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ast.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ast.py
@@ -386,6 +386,12 @@ class ASTHelpers_Test(unittest.TestCase):
b = compile('foo(1 + 1)', '<unknown>', 'exec', ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST)
self.assertEqual(ast.dump(a), ast.dump(b))
+ def test_parse_in_error(self):
+ try:
+ 1/0
+ except Exception:
+ self.assertRaises(SyntaxError, ast.parse, r"'\U'")
+
def test_dump(self):
node = ast.parse('spam(eggs, "and cheese")')
self.assertEqual(ast.dump(node),
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4bb9698..544bf67 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.2.4
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using ast.parse in an
+ exception handler on code with syntax errors.
+
- Issue #15761: Fix crash when PYTHONEXECUTABLE is set on Mac OS X.
- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
diff --git a/Python/ast.c b/Python/ast.c
index 6faf5b2..3d0e384 100644
--- a/Python/ast.c
+++ b/Python/ast.c
@@ -92,7 +92,15 @@ ast_error(const node *n, const char *errstr)
PyObject *u = Py_BuildValue("zii", errstr, LINENO(n), n->n_col_offset);
if (!u)
return 0;
+ /*
+ * Prevent the error from being chained. PyErr_SetObject will normalize the
+ * exception in order to chain it. ast_error_finish, however, requires the
+ * error not to be normalized.
+ */
+ PyObject *save = PyThreadState_GET()->exc_value;
+ PyThreadState_GET()->exc_value = NULL;
PyErr_SetObject(PyExc_SyntaxError, u);
+ PyThreadState_GET()->exc_value = save;
Py_DECREF(u);
return 0;
}