Handle SyntaxErrors when tokenizing a file

Closes #205

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/flake8/exceptions.py b/src/flake8/exceptions.py
index 349d471..cf8aae3 100644
--- a/src/flake8/exceptions.py
+++ b/src/flake8/exceptions.py
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ class InvalidSyntax(Flake8Exception):
         """Initialize our InvalidSyntax exception."""
         exception = kwargs.pop('exception', None)
         self.original_exception = exception
-        self.error_message = str(exception)
+        self.error_message = '{0}: {1}'.format(
+            exception.__class__.__name__,
+            exception.args[0],
+        )
         self.error_code = 'E902'
         self.line_number = 1
         self.column_number = 0
diff --git a/src/flake8/processor.py b/src/flake8/processor.py
index e9d1b8a..44024e5 100644
--- a/src/flake8/processor.py
+++ b/src/flake8/processor.py
@@ -240,13 +240,7 @@ class FileProcessor(object):
                     break
                 self.tokens.append(token)
                 yield token
-        # NOTE(sigmavirus24): pycodestyle was catching both a SyntaxError
-        # and a tokenize.TokenError. In looking a the source on Python 2 and
-        # Python 3, the SyntaxError should never arise from generate_tokens.
-        # If we were using tokenize.tokenize, we would have to catch that. Of
-        # course, I'm going to be unsurprised to be proven wrong at a later
-        # date.
-        except tokenize.TokenError as exc:
+        except (tokenize.TokenError, SyntaxError) as exc:
             raise exceptions.InvalidSyntax(exception=exc)
 
     def line_for(self, line_number):