Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs registry.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index bf5efba..2d70565 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -450,6 +450,9 @@
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 9b0c4b2..607feea 100644
--- a/Python/codecs.c
+++ b/Python/codecs.c
@@ -1041,15 +1041,6 @@
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);