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  r72848 | eric.smith | 2009-05-23 09:56:13 -0400 (Sat, 23 May 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 6089: str.format raises SystemError.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_str.py b/Lib/test/test_str.py
index 044711c..de988a8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_str.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_str.py
@@ -351,6 +351,10 @@
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, "{:s}".format)
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, "{}".format)
 
+        # issue 6089
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, "{0[0]x}".format, [None])
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, "{0[0](10)}".format, [None])
+
         # can't have a replacement on the field name portion
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, '{0[{1}]}'.format, 'abcdefg', 4)