From 61a032d7e2796f12859340a5f62b421e1f66dd51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeong YunWon <jeong@youknowone.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:35:29 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] fix buffer

---
 .cspell.dict/cpython.txt |  3 +++
 crates/vm/src/buffer.rs  | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.cspell.dict/cpython.txt b/.cspell.dict/cpython.txt
index 26921e04080..8acb1468f66 100644
--- a/.cspell.dict/cpython.txt
+++ b/.cspell.dict/cpython.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ cellvar
 cellvars
 cmpop
 denom
+DICTFLAG
 dictoffset
 elts
 excepthandler
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ heaptype
 HIGHRES
 IMMUTABLETYPE
 Itertool
+keeped
 kwonlyarg
 kwonlyargs
 lasti
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ PYTHREAD_NAME
 SA_ONSTACK
 SOABI
 stackdepth
+stginfo
 stringlib
 structseq
 subparams
diff --git a/crates/vm/src/buffer.rs b/crates/vm/src/buffer.rs
index 13cebfc6a28..cf49d6815c0 100644
--- a/crates/vm/src/buffer.rs
+++ b/crates/vm/src/buffer.rs
@@ -238,10 +238,23 @@ impl FormatCode {
                 _ => 1,
             };
 
+            // Skip whitespace (Python ignores whitespace in format strings)
+            while let Some(b' ' | b'\t' | b'\n' | b'\r') = chars.peek() {
+                chars.next();
+            }
+
             // determine format char:
-            let c = chars
-                .next()
-                .ok_or_else(|| "repeat count given without format specifier".to_owned())?;
+            let c = match chars.next() {
+                Some(c) => c,
+                None => {
+                    // If we have a repeat count but only whitespace follows, error
+                    if repeat != 1 {
+                        return Err("repeat count given without format specifier".to_owned());
+                    }
+                    // Otherwise, we're done parsing
+                    break;
+                }
+            };
 
             // Check for embedded null character
             if c == 0 {