New submission from Barry A. Warsaw:

Let's say you use a custom opener, and that opener happens to return exactly 
-1.  You end up with a SystemError because NULL got returned without an 
exception being set:

def negative(fname, flags):
    return -1


with open('/tmp/foo.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8', opener=negative) as fp:
    print('oops', file=fp)


% python3 /tmp/foo.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/foo.py", line 5, in <module>
    with open('/tmp/foo.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8', opener=negative) as fp:
SystemError: <class '_io.FileIO'> returned NULL without setting an error


Anything else and you get a relatively decent exception.  E.g. return -2 and 
you get an OSError.  Raise an exception and you get that exception.

The problem is pretty clear to see; when an opener is set, after coercing the 
fd to an integer, the check is made for that integer being -1, and then it 
jumps right to the exit.

Let's say you return some non-integer, like 'foo'.  Then the _PyLong_AsInt() 
will fail and a proper exception will be set.  So I think the "if (self->fd == 
-1)" clause just needs to check for an exception set first and set one if there 
isn't one before it does the "goto error".  I guess you'd want to see the same 
exception as if it returned say, -2:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/foo.py", line 5, in <module>
    with open('/tmp/foo.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8', opener=negative) as fp:
OSError: [Errno 0] Error: '/tmp/foo.txt'

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components: IO
messages: 265901
nosy: barry
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: SystemError if custom opener returns -1
type: crash
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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