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  r72376 | jeroen.ruigrok | 2009-05-06 07:33:24 +0200 (wo, 06 mei 2009) | 12 lines

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    r72375 | jeroen.ruigrok | 2009-05-06 07:25:42 +0200 (wo, 06 mei 2009) | 5 lines

    Wrap getpreferredencoding()'s use of setlocale in a try/except to prevent
    us from raising an exception when the locale is invalid.

    Issue #1443504
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diff --git a/Lib/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py
index 17056b9df216fc1076b040e9f2ab962021c50b00..7d06b06614b5ba7398a25777427a1599ef5b7fa0 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/locale.py
+++ b/Lib/locale.py
@@ -557,7 +557,10 @@ else:
             according to the system configuration."""
             if do_setlocale:
                 oldloc = setlocale(LC_CTYPE)
-                setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")
+                try:
+                    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")
+                except:
+                    pass
                 result = nl_langinfo(CODESET)
                 setlocale(LC_CTYPE, oldloc)
                 return result