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-rw-r--r--Lib/_strptime.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_strptime.py6
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_time.py6
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/_strptime.py b/Lib/_strptime.py
index b0cd3d619e..b089b08541 100644
--- a/Lib/_strptime.py
+++ b/Lib/_strptime.py
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ def _strptime(data_string, format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"):
bad_directive = "%"
del err
raise ValueError("'%s' is a bad directive in format '%s'" %
- (bad_directive, format))
+ (bad_directive, format)) from None
# IndexError only occurs when the format string is "%"
except IndexError:
raise ValueError("stray %% in format '%s'" % format)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_strptime.py b/Lib/test/test_strptime.py
index 90aac5b3f6..68e6a67636 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_strptime.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_strptime.py
@@ -218,6 +218,12 @@ class StrptimeTests(unittest.TestCase):
else:
self.fail("'%s' did not raise ValueError" % bad_format)
+ def test_strptime_exception_context(self):
+ # check that this doesn't chain exceptions needlessly (see #17572)
+ with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as e:
+ _strptime._strptime_time('', '%D')
+ self.assertIs(e.exception.__suppress_context__, True)
+
def test_unconverteddata(self):
# Check ValueError is raised when there is unconverted data
self.assertRaises(ValueError, _strptime._strptime_time, "10 12", "%m")
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_time.py b/Lib/test/test_time.py
index da0f555d91..0e4d70284b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_time.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_time.py
@@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ class TimeTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertRaises(TypeError, time.strptime, b'2009', "%Y")
self.assertRaises(TypeError, time.strptime, '2009', b'%Y')
+ def test_strptime_exception_context(self):
+ # check that this doesn't chain exceptions needlessly (see #17572)
+ with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as e:
+ time.strptime('', '%D')
+ self.assertIs(e.exception.__suppress_context__, True)
+
def test_asctime(self):
time.asctime(time.gmtime(self.t))
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 03f9e2f8f7..4405779a75 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #17572: Avoid chained exceptions while passing bad directives to
+ time.strptime(). Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.