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From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
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Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 00:49:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gh-92256: Improve Argument Clinic parser error messages
 (GH-92268)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
(cherry picked from commit 4bd07d1dbd493fc9b2c2a77e9e905c517682052e)

Co-authored-by: Erlend Egeberg Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
---
 Tools/clinic/clinic.py | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Tools/clinic/clinic.py b/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
index 655e386512a..c68ee9a2320 100755
--- a/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
+++ b/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
@@ -1566,10 +1566,16 @@ def parse_clinic_block(self, dsl_name):
         def is_stop_line(line):
             # make sure to recognize stop line even if it
             # doesn't end with EOL (it could be the very end of the file)
-            if not line.startswith(stop_line):
+            if line.startswith(stop_line):
+                remainder = line[len(stop_line):]
+                if remainder and not remainder.isspace():
+                    fail(f"Garbage after stop line: {remainder!r}")
+                return True
+            else:
+                # gh-92256: don't allow incorrectly formatted stop lines
+                if line.lstrip().startswith(stop_line):
+                    fail(f"Whitespace is not allowed before the stop line: {line!r}")
                 return False
-            remainder = line[len(stop_line):]
-            return (not remainder) or remainder.isspace()
 
         # consume body of program
         while self.input:
-- 
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