sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5cc5963..da09cc9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@
Library
-------
+- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
+ called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
+
- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 8d44135..5664646 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -259,8 +259,9 @@
{
if (Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding)
return PyUnicode_FromString(Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding);
- Py_INCREF(Py_None);
- return Py_None;
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError,
+ "filesystem encoding is not initialized");
+ return NULL;
}
PyDoc_STRVAR(getfilesystemencoding_doc,