commit cf7b1cadd19762f63cff48713b5be7b0dd3f548e
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Fri Oct 31 01:34:45 2014 +0200
committer Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Fri Oct 31 01:34:45 2014 +0200
tree 063afe349714e30fd97d909c23a597ee1d0e197e
parent d9b8dc272aed9d6d69ea51107ba0246e767f33d2

Fixed compile error in issue #22410. The _locale module is optional.

Lib/re.py

diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py
index 46cea2b..199afee 100644
--- a/Lib/re.py
+++ b/Lib/re.py
@@ -122,7 +122,10 @@
 import sys
 import sre_compile
 import sre_parse
-import _locale
+try:
+    import _locale
+except ImportError:
+    _locale = None
 
 # public symbols
 __all__ = [ "match", "fullmatch", "search", "sub", "subn", "split", "findall",
@@ -293,6 +296,8 @@
         if len(_cache) >= _MAXCACHE:
             _cache.clear()
         if p.flags & LOCALE:
+            if not _locale:
+                return p
             loc = _locale.setlocale(_locale.LC_CTYPE)
         else:
             loc = None