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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-09-23-52-32.bpo-40847.4XAACw.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-09-23-52-32.bpo-40847.4XAACw.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b489f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-09-23-52-32.bpo-40847.4XAACw.rst @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Fix a bug where a line with only a line continuation character is not considered a blank line at tokenizer level.
+In such cases, more than a single `NEWLINE` token was emitted. The old parser was working around the issue,
+but the new parser threw a :exc:`SyntaxError` for valid input due to this. For example, an empty line following
+a line continuation character was interpreted as a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
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