Fall back to ascii if the locale module cannot be loaded.

d78d3b45 · Martin v. Löwis · 10f07c41 · d78d3b45
Kaydet (Commit) d78d3b45 authored Agu 11, 2007 tarafından Martin v. Löwis
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--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -976,8 +976,13 @@ class TextIOWrapper(TextIOBase):
            except AttributeError:
                pass
            if encoding is None:
-                import locale
+                try:
-                encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+                    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