Merged revisions 72167 via svnmerge from
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  r72167 | walter.doerwald | 2009-05-01 19:35:37 +0200 (Fr, 01 Mai 2009) | 5 lines

  Make test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard behave like a dictionary.

  All changes are mirrored to the underlying os.environ dict, but rolled back
  on exit from the with block.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gettext.py b/Lib/test/test_gettext.py
index 6ee608e..e26b30a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_gettext.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_gettext.py
@@ -58,10 +58,6 @@
 MOFILE = os.path.join(LOCALEDIR, 'gettext.mo')
 UMOFILE = os.path.join(LOCALEDIR, 'ugettext.mo')
 MMOFILE = os.path.join(LOCALEDIR, 'metadata.mo')
-try:
-    LANG = os.environ['LANGUAGE']
-except:
-    LANG = 'en'
 
 
 class GettextBaseTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -77,10 +73,12 @@
         fp = open(MMOFILE, 'wb')
         fp.write(base64.decodestring(MMO_DATA))
         fp.close()
-        os.environ['LANGUAGE'] = 'xx'
+        self.env = support.EnvironmentVarGuard()
+        self.env['LANGUAGE'] = 'xx'
 
     def tearDown(self):
-        os.environ['LANGUAGE'] = LANG
+        self.env.__exit__()
+        del self.env
         shutil.rmtree(os.path.split(LOCALEDIR)[0])