bpo-45738: Fix computation of error location for invalid continuation (pythonGH-29550)

characters in the parser

Author: pablogsal

Lib/test/test_syntax.py

@@ -1505,7 +1505,13 @@ def func2():
     def test_invalid_line_continuation_error_position(self):
         self._check_error(r"a = 3 \ 4",
                           "unexpected character after line continuation character",
-                          lineno=1, offset=9)
+                          lineno=1, offset=8)
+        self._check_error('1,\\#\n2',
+                          "unexpected character after line continuation character",
+                          lineno=1, offset=4)
+        self._check_error('\nfgdfgf\n1,\\#\n2\n',
+                          "unexpected character after line continuation character",
+                          lineno=3, offset=4)
 
     def test_invalid_line_continuation_left_recursive(self):
         # Check bpo-42218: SyntaxErrors following left-recursive rules

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-11-14-00-14-45.bpo-45738.e0cgKd.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix computation of error location for invalid continuation characters in the
+parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

Parser/pegen.c

@@ -351,22 +351,17 @@ tokenizer_error(Parser *p)
             msg = "too many levels of indentation";
             break;
         case E_LINECONT: {
-            char* loc = strrchr(p->tok->buf, '\n');
-            const char* last_char = p->tok->cur - 1;
-            if (loc != NULL && loc != last_char) {
-                col_offset = p->tok->cur - loc - 1;
-                p->tok->buf = loc;
-            } else {
-                col_offset = last_char - p->tok->buf - 1;
-            }
+            col_offset = p->tok->cur - p->tok->buf - 1;
             msg = "unexpected character after line continuation character";
             break;
         }
         default:
             msg = "unknown parsing error";
     }
 
-    RAISE_ERROR_KNOWN_LOCATION(p, errtype, p->tok->lineno, col_offset, p->tok->lineno, -1, msg);
+    RAISE_ERROR_KNOWN_LOCATION(p, errtype, p->tok->lineno,
+                               col_offset >= 0 ? col_offset : 0,
+                               p->tok->lineno, -1, msg);
     return -1;
 }
 
@@ -497,7 +492,7 @@ _PyPegen_raise_error_known_location(Parser *p, PyObject *errtype,
            does not physically exist */
         assert(p->tok->fp == NULL || p->tok->fp == stdin || p->tok->done == E_EOF || !uses_utf8_codec);
 
-        if (p->tok->lineno <= lineno) {
+        if (p->tok->lineno <= lineno && p->tok->inp > p->tok->buf) {
             Py_ssize_t size = p->tok->inp - p->tok->buf;
             error_line = PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(p->tok->buf, size, "replace");
         }

Parser/tokenizer.c

@@ -1970,7 +1970,6 @@ tok_get(struct tok_state *tok, const char **p_start, const char **p_end)
         c = tok_nextc(tok);
         if (c != '\n') {
             tok->done = E_LINECONT;
-            tok->cur = tok->inp;
             return ERRORTOKEN;
         }
         c = tok_nextc(tok);