Issue 28128: Print out better error/warning messages for invalid string escapes. Backport to 3.6.
diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index 598f6a1..779fe29 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -1105,11 +1105,12 @@
return p;
}
-PyObject *PyBytes_DecodeEscape(const char *s,
+PyObject *_PyBytes_DecodeEscape(const char *s,
Py_ssize_t len,
const char *errors,
Py_ssize_t unicode,
- const char *recode_encoding)
+ const char *recode_encoding,
+ const char **first_invalid_escape)
{
int c;
char *p;
@@ -1123,6 +1124,8 @@
return NULL;
writer.overallocate = 1;
+ *first_invalid_escape = NULL;
+
end = s + len;
while (s < end) {
if (*s != '\\') {
@@ -1207,9 +1210,12 @@
break;
default:
- if (PyErr_WarnFormat(PyExc_DeprecationWarning, 1, "invalid escape sequence '\\%c'", *(--s)) < 0)
- goto failed;
+ if (*first_invalid_escape == NULL) {
+ *first_invalid_escape = s-1; /* Back up one char, since we've
+ already incremented s. */
+ }
*p++ = '\\';
+ s--;
goto non_esc; /* an arbitrary number of unescaped
UTF-8 bytes may follow. */
}
@@ -1222,6 +1228,29 @@
return NULL;
}
+PyObject *PyBytes_DecodeEscape(const char *s,
+ Py_ssize_t len,
+ const char *errors,
+ Py_ssize_t unicode,
+ const char *recode_encoding)
+{
+ const char* first_invalid_escape;
+ PyObject *result = _PyBytes_DecodeEscape(s, len, errors, unicode,
+ recode_encoding,
+ &first_invalid_escape);
+ if (result == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+ if (first_invalid_escape != NULL) {
+ if (PyErr_WarnFormat(PyExc_DeprecationWarning, 1,
+ "invalid escape sequence '\\%c'",
+ *first_invalid_escape) < 0) {
+ Py_DECREF(result);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ }
+ return result;
+
+}
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------- */
/* object api */