From 79746426c439a8a163d95381ffffa1b2fd34348e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:49:14 -0700
Subject: Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings with invalid
 hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'. (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)

---
 Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py')

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py b/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
index da74729099..43e08f2c78 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
@@ -643,9 +643,9 @@ class ModifiedInterpreter(InteractiveInterpreter):
         text = tkconsole.text
         text.tag_remove("ERROR", "1.0", "end")
         type, value, tb = sys.exc_info()
-        msg = value.msg or "<no detail available>"
-        lineno = value.lineno or 1
-        offset = value.offset or 0
+        msg = getattr(value, 'msg', '') or value or "<no detail available>"
+        lineno = getattr(value, 'lineno', '') or 1
+        offset = getattr(value, 'offset', '') or 0
         if offset == 0:
             lineno += 1 #mark end of offending line
         if lineno == 1:
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