From 180e63507dde824afb48ea9c1649755b79258935 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:09:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] None is ok for identifiers but not strings

---
 Parser/asdl_c.py    | 18 ++++++++----------
 Python/Python-ast.c | 18 ++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Parser/asdl_c.py b/Parser/asdl_c.py
index 65983751725..8a7f8aec7f4 100755
--- a/Parser/asdl_c.py
+++ b/Parser/asdl_c.py
@@ -794,24 +794,22 @@ static int obj2ast_object(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
     return 0;
 }
 
-static int obj2ast_stringlike(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena,
-    const char *name)
+static int obj2ast_identifier(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
 {
-    if (!PyUnicode_CheckExact(name)) {
-        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "AST %s must be of type str", name);
+    if (!PyUnicode_CheckExact(obj) && obj != Py_None) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "AST identifier must be of type str");
         return 1;
     }
     return obj2ast_object(obj, out, arena);
 }
 
-static int obj2ast_identifier(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
-{
-    return obj2ast_stringlike(obj, out, arena, "identifier");
-}
-
 static int obj2ast_string(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
 {
-    return obj2ast_stringlike(obj, out, arena, "string");
+    if (!PyUnicode_CheckExact(obj)) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "AST string must be of type str");
+        return 1;
+    }
+    return obj2ast_object(obj, out, arena);
 }
 
 static int obj2ast_int(PyObject* obj, int* out, PyArena* arena)
diff --git a/Python/Python-ast.c b/Python/Python-ast.c
index ea6a2ecf525..8ba06ff39a4 100644
--- a/Python/Python-ast.c
+++ b/Python/Python-ast.c
@@ -600,24 +600,22 @@ static int obj2ast_object(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
     return 0;
 }
 
-static int obj2ast_stringlike(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena,
-    const char *name)
+static int obj2ast_identifier(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
 {
-    if (!PyUnicode_CheckExact(name)) {
-        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "AST %s must be of type str", name);
+    if (!PyUnicode_CheckExact(obj) && obj != Py_None) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "AST identifier must be of type str");
         return 1;
     }
     return obj2ast_object(obj, out, arena);
 }
 
-static int obj2ast_identifier(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
-{
-    return obj2ast_stringlike(obj, out, arena, "identifier");
-}
-
 static int obj2ast_string(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
 {
-    return obj2ast_stringlike(obj, out, arena, "string");
+    if (!PyUnicode_CheckExact(obj)) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "AST string must be of type str");
+        return 1;
+    }
+    return obj2ast_object(obj, out, arena);
 }
 
 static int obj2ast_int(PyObject* obj, int* out, PyArena* arena)