Author: martin.v.loewis
Date: Sat Aug 11 17:36:45 2007
New Revision: 56927
Modified:
python/branches/py3k/Lib/io.py
Log:
Fall back to ascii if the locale module cannot be loaded.
Modified: python/branches/py3k/Lib/io.py
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Lib/io.py (original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Lib/io.py Sat Aug 11 17:36:45 2007
@@ -976,8 +976,13 @@
except AttributeError:
pass
if encoding is None:
- import locale
- encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+ try:
+ import locale
+ except ImportError:
+ # Importing locale may fail if Python is being built
+ encoding = "ascii"
+ else:
+ encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
self.buffer = buffer
self._encoding = encoding
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