[Python-3000] Invalid \U escape in source code give hard-to-trace error

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/17/07, Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk at shore.net> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I posted a patch to ast.c against the 2.6 trunk
> which massages the unicode exception into a SyntaxError showing the
> location.
>
> That approach lets unicodeobject.c handle the gory details while ast.c
> handles the SyntaxError generation.  It might be a solution until
> something deeper along the lines of Martin's thoughts is possibly
> developed.
>
> I don't think that any reference adjustments are needed, but someone
> should check the patch.
>
> www.python.org/sf/1755885

Thanks! Checked in, and merged into p3yk.

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