Add a minimal test suite for the parser module.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_parser.py b/Lib/test/test_parser.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/Lib/test/test_parser.py
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+import parser
+import pprint
+import sys
+
+from parser import expr, suite, sequence2ast
+from test_support import verbose
+
+#
+#  First, we test that we can generate trees from valid source fragments,
+#  and that these valid trees are indeed allowed by the tree-loading side
+#  of the parser module.
+#
+
+def roundtrip(f, s):
+    print s
+    st1 = f(s)
+    t = st1.totuple()
+    st2 = parser.sequence2ast(t)
+
+
+print "Expressions:"
+
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(1)")
+roundtrip(expr, "[1, 2, 3]")
+roundtrip(expr, "[x**3 for x in range(20)]")
+roundtrip(expr, "[x**3 for x in range(20) if x % 3]")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(*args)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(*args, **kw)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(**kw)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(key=value)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(key=value, *args)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(key=value, *args, **kw)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(key=value, **kw)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(a, b, c, *args)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(a, b, c, *args, **kw)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo(a, b, c, **kw)")
+roundtrip(expr, "foo + bar")
+
+print
+print "Statements:"
+roundtrip(suite, "print")
+roundtrip(suite, "print 1")
+roundtrip(suite, "print 1,")
+roundtrip(suite, "print >>fp")
+roundtrip(suite, "print >>fp, 1")
+roundtrip(suite, "print >>fp, 1,")
+
+#
+#  Second, we take *invalid* trees and make sure we get ParserError
+#  rejections for them.
+#
+
+print
+print "Invalid parse trees:"
+
+def check_bad_tree(tree, label):
+    print
+    print label
+    try:
+        sequence2ast(tree)
+    except parser.ParserError:
+        print "caught expected exception for invalid tree"
+        pass
+    else:
+        print "test failed: did not properly detect invalid tree:"
+        pprint.pprint(tree)
+
+
+# not even remotely valid:
+check_bad_tree((1, 2, 3), "<junk>")
+
+# print >>fp,
+tree = \
+(257,
+ (264,
+  (265,
+   (266,
+    (268,
+     (1, 'print'),
+     (35, '>>'),
+     (290,
+      (291,
+       (292,
+        (293,
+         (295,
+          (296,
+           (297,
+            (298, (299, (300, (301, (302, (303, (1, 'fp')))))))))))))),
+     (12, ','))),
+   (4, ''))),
+ (0, ''))
+
+check_bad_tree(tree, "print >>fp,")
+
+# a,,c
+tree = \
+(258,
+ (311,
+  (290,
+   (291,
+    (292,
+     (293,
+      (295,
+       (296, (297, (298, (299, (300, (301, (302, (303, (1, 'a')))))))))))))),
+  (12, ','),
+  (12, ','),
+  (290,
+   (291,
+    (292,
+     (293,
+      (295,
+       (296, (297, (298, (299, (300, (301, (302, (303, (1, 'c'))))))))))))))),
+ (4, ''),
+ (0, ''))
+
+check_bad_tree(tree, "a,,c")