From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 04:25:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Oops -- '(' is also a legal start character of a new format...
X-Git-Tag: v1.5~92
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d4f68c15f9cd63e26dc5da0795b5ad6a44fe470;p=python

Oops -- '(' is also a legal start character of a new format...
---

diff --git a/Python/getargs.c b/Python/getargs.c
index 7931b33cf9..296a3aa2c7 100644
--- a/Python/getargs.c
+++ b/Python/getargs.c
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ vgetargs1(args, format, p_va, compat)
 	}
 
 	if (*format != '\0' && !isalpha(*format) &&
+	    *format != '(' &&
 	    *format != '|' && *format != ':' && *format != ';') {
 		PyErr_Format(PyExc_SystemError,
 			     "bad format string: %s", formatsave);