From dfe4de203881e8d068e6fc5b8e31075841a86d25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lysandros Nikolaou <lisandrosnik@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 14:19:08 +0200
Subject: gh-106396: Special-case empty format spec to gen empty JoinedStr node
 (#106401)

---
 Lib/test/test_fstring.py                               | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../2023-07-04-09-51-45.gh-issue-106396.DmYp7x.rst     |  3 +++
 Parser/action_helpers.c                                | 12 ++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-07-04-09-51-45.gh-issue-106396.DmYp7x.rst

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_fstring.py b/Lib/test/test_fstring.py
index ba223ae..cb14bba 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_fstring.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_fstring.py
@@ -496,6 +496,24 @@ x = (
         self.assertEqual(wat2.end_col_offset, 17)
         self.assertEqual(fstring.end_col_offset, 18)
 
+    def test_ast_fstring_empty_format_spec(self):
+        expr = "f'{expr:}'"
+
+        mod = ast.parse(expr)
+        self.assertEqual(type(mod), ast.Module)
+        self.assertEqual(len(mod.body), 1)
+
+        fstring = mod.body[0].value
+        self.assertEqual(type(fstring), ast.JoinedStr)
+        self.assertEqual(len(fstring.values), 1)
+
+        fv = fstring.values[0]
+        self.assertEqual(type(fv), ast.FormattedValue)
+
+        format_spec = fv.format_spec
+        self.assertEqual(type(format_spec), ast.JoinedStr)
+        self.assertEqual(len(format_spec.values), 0)
+
     def test_docstring(self):
         def f():
             f'''Not a docstring'''
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-07-04-09-51-45.gh-issue-106396.DmYp7x.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-07-04-09-51-45.gh-issue-106396.DmYp7x.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5767e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-07-04-09-51-45.gh-issue-106396.DmYp7x.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+When the format specification of an f-string expression is empty, the parser now
+generates an empty :class:`ast.JoinedStr` node for it instead of an one-element
+:class:`ast.JoinedStr` with an empty string :class:`ast.Constant`.
diff --git a/Parser/action_helpers.c b/Parser/action_helpers.c
index 70c267b..36e0750 100644
--- a/Parser/action_helpers.c
+++ b/Parser/action_helpers.c
@@ -997,6 +997,18 @@ _PyPegen_setup_full_format_spec(Parser *p, Token *colon, asdl_expr_seq *spec, in
     if (!spec) {
         return NULL;
     }
+
+    // This is needed to keep compatibility with 3.11, where an empty format spec is parsed
+    // as an *empty* JoinedStr node, instead of having an empty constant in it.
+    if (asdl_seq_LEN(spec) == 1) {
+        expr_ty e = asdl_seq_GET(spec, 0);
+        if (e->kind == Constant_kind
+                && PyUnicode_Check(e->v.Constant.value)
+                && PyUnicode_GetLength(e->v.Constant.value) == 0) {
+            spec = _Py_asdl_expr_seq_new(0, arena);
+        }
+    }
+
     expr_ty res = _PyAST_JoinedStr(spec, lineno, col_offset, end_lineno, end_col_offset, p->arena);
     if (!res) {
         return NULL;
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