commit 174c4f897fd05b8f838cb4db928295f23ab4b033
author Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> Tue Nov 15 18:29:02 2011 -0800
committer Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> Tue Nov 15 18:29:02 2011 -0800
tree 8ff53d6aabfe549b39138e778dab90e192400313
parent 30402549de68a5303a5e2995dca7375d3d17966f

Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash in 2.7 when given strings with
invalid hex escape sequences.

Lib/idlelib/ScriptBinding.py

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/ScriptBinding.py b/Lib/idlelib/ScriptBinding.py
index 1139b30..4c6dc82 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/ScriptBinding.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/ScriptBinding.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
             try:
                 # If successful, return the compiled code
                 return compile(source, filename, "exec")
-            except (SyntaxError, OverflowError), err:
+            except (SyntaxError, OverflowError, ValueError), err:
                 try:
                     msg, (errorfilename, lineno, offset, line) = err
                     if not errorfilename: