diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index cd85156..3e44aa0 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -536,6 +536,7 @@
 builtin_compile(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
 {
     char *str;
+    PyObject *filename_obj;
     char *filename;
     char *startstr;
     int mode = -1;
@@ -547,12 +548,16 @@
     static char *kwlist[] = {"source", "filename", "mode", "flags",
                              "dont_inherit", NULL};
     int start[] = {Py_file_input, Py_eval_input, Py_single_input};
+    PyObject *result;
 
-    if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "Oss|ii:compile",
-                                     kwlist, &cmd, &filename, &startstr,
-                                     &supplied_flags, &dont_inherit))
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "OO&s|ii:compile",  kwlist,
+                                     &cmd,
+                                     PyUnicode_FSConverter, &filename_obj,
+                                     &startstr, &supplied_flags,
+                                     &dont_inherit))
         return NULL;
 
+    filename = PyBytes_AS_STRING(filename_obj);
     cf.cf_flags = supplied_flags | PyCF_SOURCE_IS_UTF8;
 
     if (supplied_flags &
@@ -560,7 +565,7 @@
     {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
                         "compile(): unrecognised flags");
-        return NULL;
+        goto error;
     }
     /* XXX Warn if (supplied_flags & PyCF_MASK_OBSOLETE) != 0? */
 
@@ -577,14 +582,13 @@
     else {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
                         "compile() arg 3 must be 'exec', 'eval' or 'single'");
-        return NULL;
+        goto error;
     }
 
     is_ast = PyAST_Check(cmd);
     if (is_ast == -1)
-        return NULL;
+        goto error;
     if (is_ast) {
-        PyObject *result;
         if (supplied_flags & PyCF_ONLY_AST) {
             Py_INCREF(cmd);
             result = cmd;
@@ -597,20 +601,27 @@
             mod = PyAST_obj2mod(cmd, arena, mode);
             if (mod == NULL) {
                 PyArena_Free(arena);
-                return NULL;
+                goto error;
             }
             result = (PyObject*)PyAST_Compile(mod, filename,
                                               &cf, arena);
             PyArena_Free(arena);
         }
-        return result;
+        goto finally;
     }
 
     str = source_as_string(cmd, "compile", "string, bytes, AST or code", &cf);
     if (str == NULL)
-        return NULL;
+        goto error;
 
-    return Py_CompileStringFlags(str, filename, start[mode], &cf);
+    result = Py_CompileStringFlags(str, filename, start[mode], &cf);
+    goto finally;
+
+error:
+    result = NULL;
+finally:
+    Py_DECREF(filename_obj);
+    return result;
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(compile_doc,