Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs registry.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d6728be..7d8cb7b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs
+ registry.
+
- Issue #13781: Fix GzipFile bug that caused an exception to be raised when
opening for writing using a fileobj returned by os.fdopen().
diff --git a/Python/codecs.c b/Python/codecs.c
index 1a3e457..c7f4a9c 100644
--- a/Python/codecs.c
+++ b/Python/codecs.c
@@ -1067,15 +1067,6 @@
mod = PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock("encodings");
if (mod == NULL) {
- if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_ImportError)) {
- /* Ignore ImportErrors... this is done so that
- distributions can disable the encodings package. Note
- that other errors are not masked, e.g. SystemErrors
- raised to inform the user of an error in the Python
- configuration are still reported back to the user. */
- PyErr_Clear();
- return 0;
- }
return -1;
}
Py_DECREF(mod);