diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1dbba8c3384..22c4f869c51 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 3.0a3?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #1692: Interpreter was not displaying location of SyntaxError
+
 - Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
   module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
   of 'error code 193'.  Also use Unicode strings to deal with non-English
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index f95ea831aa8..faacb447d2c 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ parse_syntax_error(PyObject *err, PyObject **message, const char **filename,
 		goto finally;
 	if (v == Py_None)
 		*filename = NULL;
-	else if (! (*filename = PyString_AsString(v)))
+	else if (! (*filename = PyUnicode_AsString(v)))
 		goto finally;
 
 	Py_DECREF(v);