Add a registry for builtin exception models. Close PyCQA/pylint#1432

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/astroid/interpreter/objectmodel.py b/astroid/interpreter/objectmodel.py
index 65e9c641..746f6ba6 100644
--- a/astroid/interpreter/objectmodel.py
+++ b/astroid/interpreter/objectmodel.py
@@ -601,6 +601,9 @@ class InstanceModel(ObjectModel):
         return _dunder_dict(self._instance, self._instance.instance_attrs)
 
 
+# Exception instances
+
+
 class ExceptionInstanceModel(InstanceModel):
     @property
     def pyargs(self):
@@ -616,6 +619,15 @@ class ExceptionInstanceModel(InstanceModel):
         return traceback_type.instantiate_class()
 
 
+class SyntaxErrorInstanceModel(ExceptionInstanceModel):
+    @property
+    def pytext(self):
+        return node_classes.Const("")
+
+
+BUILTIN_EXCEPTIONS = {"builtins.SyntaxError": SyntaxErrorInstanceModel}
+
+
 class DictModel(ObjectModel):
     @property
     def py__class__(self):