Issue 6089: str.format raises SystemError.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 83bc584..99155ec 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -1100,6 +1100,10 @@
         self.assertRaises(IndexError, u"{:s}".format)
         self.assertRaises(IndexError, u"{}".format)
 
+        # issue 6089
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, u"{0[0]x}".format, [None])
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, u"{0[0](10)}".format, [None])
+
         # can't have a replacement on the field name portion
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, u'{0[{1}]}'.format, u'abcdefg', 4)