This stopped working on Windows, due to a reference to the non-existent
_locale.getdefaultlocale. Guessing a leading underscore was intended,
but don't really understood this stuff (locale looks like Spanish for
the opposite of global to me <wink>).
diff --git a/Lib/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py
index 9ae981f..8a26744 100644
--- a/Lib/locale.py
+++ b/Lib/locale.py
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@
def getpreferredencoding(do_setlocale = True):
"""Return the charset that the user is likely using."""
import _locale
- return _locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+ return _locale._getdefaultlocale()[1]
else:
# On Unix, if CODESET is available, use that.
try: