diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-10-05-17-06-49.bpo-34910.tSFrls.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-10-05-17-06-49.bpo-34910.tSFrls.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eff4755d8d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-10-05-17-06-49.bpo-34910.tSFrls.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Ensure that :c:func:`PyObject_Print` always returns ``-1`` on error.  Patch
+by Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
index 220aa90bf59..5535b7ee7ec 100644
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -376,8 +376,9 @@ PyObject_Print(PyObject *op, FILE *fp, int flags)
             else if (PyUnicode_Check(s)) {
                 PyObject *t;
                 t = PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(s, "utf-8", "backslashreplace");
-                if (t == NULL)
-                    ret = 0;
+                if (t == NULL) {
+                    ret = -1;
+                }
                 else {
                     fwrite(PyBytes_AS_STRING(t), 1,
                            PyBytes_GET_SIZE(t), fp);