https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/db9bea0386c1c0b6c9d7c66474cda7e47e4b56f5
commit: db9bea0386c1c0b6c9d7c66474cda7e47e4b56f5
branch: main
author: Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy (తాటిపర్తి శ్రీనివాస్  రెడ్డి) 
<[email protected]>
committer: cfbolz <[email protected]>
date: 2024-12-11T08:35:17+01:00
summary:

gh-127740: For odd-length input to bytes.fromhex(...) change the error message 
to  ValueError: fromhex() arg must be of even length (#127756)

files:
A 
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-12-10-21-08-05.gh-issue-127740.0tWC9h.rst
M Lib/test/test_bytes.py
M Objects/bytesobject.c

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
index 9e1985bb3a7639..32cd178fa3b445 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
@@ -459,6 +459,12 @@ def test_fromhex(self):
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.type2test.fromhex, '\x00')
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.type2test.fromhex, '12   \x00   34')
 
+        # For odd number of character(s)
+        for value in ("a", "aaa", "deadbee"):
+            with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as cm:
+                self.type2test.fromhex(value)
+            self.assertIn("fromhex() arg must contain an even number of 
hexadecimal digits", str(cm.exception))
+
         for data, pos in (
             # invalid first hexadecimal character
             ('12 x4 56', 3),
diff --git 
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-12-10-21-08-05.gh-issue-127740.0tWC9h.rst
 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-12-10-21-08-05.gh-issue-127740.0tWC9h.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f614dbb59bdc87
--- /dev/null
+++ 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-12-10-21-08-05.gh-issue-127740.0tWC9h.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fix error message in :func:`bytes.fromhex` when given an odd number of
+digits to properly indicate that an even number of hexadecimal digits is
+required.
diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index 8c7651f0f3aa45..533089d25cd73a 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -2543,7 +2543,12 @@ _PyBytes_FromHex(PyObject *string, int use_bytearray)
 
         bot = _PyLong_DigitValue[*str];
         if (bot >= 16) {
-            invalid_char = str - PyUnicode_1BYTE_DATA(string);
+            /* Check if we had a second digit */
+            if (str >= end){
+                invalid_char = -1;
+            } else {
+                invalid_char = str - PyUnicode_1BYTE_DATA(string);
+            }
             goto error;
         }
         str++;
@@ -2554,9 +2559,14 @@ _PyBytes_FromHex(PyObject *string, int use_bytearray)
     return _PyBytesWriter_Finish(&writer, buf);
 
   error:
-    PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError,
-                 "non-hexadecimal number found in "
-                 "fromhex() arg at position %zd", invalid_char);
+    if (invalid_char == -1) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
+                        "fromhex() arg must contain an even number of 
hexadecimal digits");
+    } else {
+        PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError,
+                     "non-hexadecimal number found in "
+                     "fromhex() arg at position %zd", invalid_char);
+    }
     _PyBytesWriter_Dealloc(&writer);
     return NULL;
 }

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