Fix issue # 1037 (sort of).
diff --git a/Parser/tokenizer.c b/Parser/tokenizer.c
index 6320f75..d86615f 100644
--- a/Parser/tokenizer.c
+++ b/Parser/tokenizer.c
@@ -1080,8 +1080,14 @@
static int
verify_identifier(char *start, char *end)
{
- PyObject *s = PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(start, end-start, NULL);
- int result = PyUnicode_IsIdentifier(s);
+ PyObject *s;
+ int result;
+ s = PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(start, end-start, NULL);
+ if (s == NULL) {
+ PyErr_Clear();
+ return 0;
+ }
+ result = PyUnicode_IsIdentifier(s);
Py_DECREF(s);
return result;
}