commit 20573e0dd0ef358ad3672a2b64f4718fd71ec980
author Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@in-nomine.org> Wed May 06 07:41:26 2009 +0000
committer Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@in-nomine.org> Wed May 06 07:41:26 2009 +0000
tree 239845d5cb467f46b6d68b2588a7b7898b4ffaf0
parent e04f113624bf9bdec2feedef2b8edada58e60c40

Merged revisions 72375 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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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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Lib/locale.py

diff --git a/Lib/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py
index 163b044..1536bb5 100644
--- a/Lib/locale.py
+++ b/Lib/locale.py
@@ -546,7 +546,10 @@
             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