@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import os.path
 import py_compile
 import subprocess
+import io
 
 import textwrap
 from test import support
@@ -539,6 +540,38 @@ def test_issue20500_exit_with_exception_value(self):
             text = stderr.decode('ascii')
             self.assertEqual(text, "some text")
 
+    def test_syntaxerror_unindented_caret_position(self):
+        script = "1 + 1 = 2\n"
+        with support.temp_dir() as script_dir:
+            script_name = _make_test_script(script_dir, 'script', script)
+            exitcode, stdout, stderr = assert_python_failure(script_name)
+            text = io.TextIOWrapper(io.BytesIO(stderr), 'ascii').read()
+            # Confirm that the caret is located under the first 1 character
+            self.assertIn("\n    1 + 1 = 2\n    ^", text)
+
+    def test_syntaxerror_indented_caret_position(self):
+        script = textwrap.dedent("""\
+            if True:
+                1 + 1 = 2
+            """)
+        with support.temp_dir() as script_dir:
+            script_name = _make_test_script(script_dir, 'script', script)
+            exitcode, stdout, stderr = assert_python_failure(script_name)
+            text = io.TextIOWrapper(io.BytesIO(stderr), 'ascii').read()
+            # Confirm that the caret is located under the first 1 character
+            self.assertIn("\n    1 + 1 = 2\n    ^", text)
+
+            # Try the same with a form feed at the start of the indented line
+            script = (
+                "if True:\n"
+                "\f    1 + 1 = 2\n"
+            )
+            script_name = _make_test_script(script_dir, "script", script)
+            exitcode, stdout, stderr = assert_python_failure(script_name)
+            text = io.TextIOWrapper(io.BytesIO(stderr), "ascii").read()
+            self.assertNotIn("\f", text)
+            self.assertIn("\n    1 + 1 = 2\n    ^", text)
+
 
 def test_main():
     support.run_unittest(CmdLineTest)
 
@@ -851,6 +851,7 @@ Julia Lawall
 Chris Lawrence
 Mark Lawrence
 Chris Laws
+Michael Layzell
 Michael Lazar
 Brian Leair
 Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
 
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.6.1 release candidate 1
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for
+  indented blocks.  Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
+
 - Issue #29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate
   form.
 
 
@@ -1144,11 +1144,8 @@ err_programtext(FILE *fp, int lineno)
     }
     fclose(fp);
     if (i == lineno) {
-        char *p = linebuf;
         PyObject *res;
-        while (*p == ' ' || *p == '\t' || *p == '\014')
-            p++;
-        res = PyUnicode_FromString(p);
+        res = PyUnicode_FromString(linebuf);
         if (res == NULL)
             PyErr_Clear();
         return res;
 
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ print_error_text(PyObject *f, int offset, PyObject *text_obj)
             offset -= (int)(nl+1-text);
             text = nl+1;
         }
-        while (*text == ' ' || *text == '\t') {
+        while (*text == ' ' || *text == '\t' || *text == '\f') {
             text++;
             offset--;
         }
Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ print_error_text(PyObject f, int offset, PyObject text_obj)`
`528`	`528`	`offset -= (int)(nl+1-text);`
`529`	`529`	`text = nl+1;`
`530`	`530`	`}`
`531`		`- while (text == ' ' \|\| text == '\t') {`
	`531`	`+ while (text == ' ' \|\| text == '\t' \|\| *text == '\f') {`
`532`	`532`	`text++;`
`533`	`533`	`offset--;`
`534`	`534`	`}`