diff --git a/Parser/tokenizer.c b/Parser/tokenizer.c
index 4fdbad9..61bfb4e 100644
--- a/Parser/tokenizer.c
+++ b/Parser/tokenizer.c
@@ -1636,6 +1636,8 @@
                                    "<> not supported in 3.x; use !=",
                                    tok->filename, tok->lineno,
                                    NULL, NULL)) {
+                tok->done = E_ERROR;
+                tok->cur = tok->inp;
                 return ERRORTOKEN;
             }
         }