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Parse error found with Hypothesmith

Open Zac-HD opened this issue 5 years ago • 5 comments

weird = "pass #\r#\n"
exec(weird)                                     # works, as does `compile` etc.
black.format_str(weird, mode=black.FileMode())  # fails with `black.InvalidInput`

Operating system: Windows Python version: 3.7.3 Black version: 19.3b0 Does also happen on master: yes (website hangs)

I found this weird little string with hypothesmith, a tool for generating Python source code with Hypothesis that I started at the PyCon NA sprints and published at the PyCon AU sprints. Currently it works based on an approximate grammar, post-processing, and filtering.

CC @ambv who I know was interested in fuzzing 😄. Next steps... I think a combination of targeted mutation (open PR upstream) and spending more than a few minutes of CPU time could turn up a lot more weird things!

Zac-HD avatar Aug 07 '19 05:08 Zac-HD

Nice!

zsol avatar Aug 07 '19 14:08 zsol

FWIW this is also a bug in upstream lib2to3. You might want to report it on http://bugs.python.org/

zsol avatar Aug 07 '19 14:08 zsol