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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_syntax.py4
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Python/ast.c1
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_syntax.py b/Lib/test/test_syntax.py
index 02372ba..5926b69 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
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9a12912..bfa8f83 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -716,6 +716,9 @@ Core and Builtins
- Add sys.flags attribute for the new -q command-line option.
+- 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 e62a215..5b12da8 100644
--- a/Python/ast.c
+++ b/Python/ast.c
@@ -483,6 +483,7 @@ 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: