Interpreter wasn't displaying the location of a SyntaxError
Issue1692
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1dbba8c..22c4f86 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #1692: Interpreter was not displaying location of SyntaxError
+
- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
of 'error code 193'. Also use Unicode strings to deal with non-English
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index f95ea83..faacb44 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@
goto finally;
if (v == Py_None)
*filename = NULL;
- else if (! (*filename = PyString_AsString(v)))
+ else if (! (*filename = PyUnicode_AsString(v)))
goto finally;
Py_DECREF(v);