bpo-43733: netrc try to use UTF-8 before using locale encoding. (GH-25781)
diff --git a/Lib/netrc.py b/Lib/netrc.py
index f0ae48c..734d94c 100644
--- a/Lib/netrc.py
+++ b/Lib/netrc.py
@@ -26,8 +26,12 @@ def __init__(self, file=None):
file = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".netrc")
self.hosts = {}
self.macros = {}
- with open(file) as fp:
- self._parse(file, fp, default_netrc)
+ try:
+ with open(file, encoding="utf-8") as fp:
+ self._parse(file, fp, default_netrc)
+ except UnicodeDecodeError:
+ with open(file, encoding="locale") as fp:
+ self._parse(file, fp, default_netrc)
def _parse(self, file, fp, default_netrc):
lexer = shlex.shlex(fp)