- Finally fixed the bug in compile() and exec where a string ending
with an indented code block but no newline would raise SyntaxError.
This would have been a four-line change in parsetok.c... Except
codeop.py depends on this behavior, so a compilation flag had to be
invented that causes the tokenizer to revert to the old behavior;
this required extra changes to 2 .h files, 2 .c files, and 2 .py
files. (Fixes SF bug #501622.)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dc6f1db..f206985 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@
Core and builtins
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+- Finally fixed the bug in compile() and exec where a string ending
+ with an indented code block but no newline would raise SyntaxError.
+ This would have been a four-line change in parsetok.c... Except
+ codeop.py depends on this behavior, so a compilation flag had to be
+ invented that causes the tokenizer to revert to the old behavior;
+ this required extra changes to 2 .h files, 2 .c files, and 2 .py
+ files.
+
- If a new-style class defines neither __new__ nor __init__, its
constructor would ignore all arguments. This is changed now: the
constructor refuses arguments in this case. This might break code