Issue #16504: Catch SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer in IDLE.

serhiy-storchaka · serhiy-storchaka · commit 07e0e06f8a25 · 2012-12-27T21:38:04.000+02:00
Patch by Roger Serwy.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
@@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@ def run(self):
                 tokens = _tokenize.generate_tokens(self.readline)
                 for token in tokens:
                     self.tokeneater(*token)
-            except _tokenize.TokenError:
+            except (_tokenize.TokenError, SyntaxError):
                 # since we cut off the tokenizer early, we can trigger
                 # spurious errors
                 pass
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
+  Roger Serwy.
+
 - Issue #16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes
   regarding leading dots.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
