From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:00:11 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: #7842: backport fix for py_compile.compile syntax error message handling.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.4rc1~100
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c32b678fd057f10ef1bf8999b7785f51e0e5f81b;p=python

#7842: backport fix for py_compile.compile syntax error message handling.
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diff --git a/Lib/py_compile.py b/Lib/py_compile.py
index dc1cae98dd..c0bc1e4eb8 100644
--- a/Lib/py_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/py_compile.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def compile(file, cfile=None, dfile=None, doraise=False):
     try:
         codeobject = __builtin__.compile(codestring, dfile or file,'exec')
     except Exception,err:
-        py_exc = PyCompileError(err.__class__,err.args,dfile or file)
+        py_exc = PyCompileError(err.__class__, err, dfile or file)
         if doraise:
             raise py_exc
         else:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 79e350a497..d03d7c638a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #7842: backported fix for py_compile.compile() syntax error handling.
+
 - Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
   a unicode argument contains non-BMP character.