commit 07e0e06f8a255a73d181e332dd8658814eb1ca50
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Thu Dec 27 21:38:04 2012 +0200
committer Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Thu Dec 27 21:38:04 2012 +0200
tree 1b611b45e24e3134804ac72adc103c8258746e84
parent c8bd74ddfd5a41e8f37181bf4ba3c9e37b6d65b1

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

Patch by Roger Serwy.

Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
index 48aabc8..16f63c5 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
@@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@
                 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