[3.6] bpo-29571: Use correct locale encoding in test_re (#149) (#153)
``local.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)`` and
``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` may give different answers
in some cases (such as the ``en_IN`` locale).
``re.LOCALE`` uses the latter, so update the test case to match.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index b945cf0..a506b98 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@
def test_locale_flag(self):
import locale
- _, enc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)
+ enc = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
# Search non-ASCII letter
for i in range(128, 256):
try:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5f682e5..b631fde 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -202,6 +202,11 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #29571: to match the behaviour of the ``re.LOCALE`` flag,
+ test_re.test_locale_flag now uses ``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` to
+ determine the candidate encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly
+ skip the test when the default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding)
+
- Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest
command line arguments.