[New-bugs-announce] [issue7161] raise of SyntaxError in codeop was ported incorrectly to Py3

[Trundle]

New submission from Trundle <andy-python at hammerhartes.de>:

The original lines in Lib/codeop.py under Python 2.6:

raise SyntaxError, err1

Those lines were ported to Python 3 as:

raise SyntaxError(err1)

Which is wrong because `err1` is in both cases an instance of 
`SyntaxError`. Quote from the language reference: "If the first object 
is a class, it becomes the type of the exception. The second object is 
used to determine the exception value: If it is an instance of the 
class, the instance becomes the exception value." Therefore, the correct 
translation of that code is: "raise err1".

The attached patch fixes the issue.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: codeop_raise_syntaxerror.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 94185
nosy: Trundle
severity: normal
status: open
title: raise of SyntaxError in codeop was ported incorrectly to Py3
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15157/codeop_raise_syntaxerror.patch

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