Fall back to ascii if the locale module cannot be loaded.

2025-08-04 00:48:58 +00:00 · 2007-08-11 15:36:45 +00:00 · 2007-08-11 15:36:45 +00:00 · d78d3b4541
commit d78d3b4541
parent 10f07c41e6
1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@ -976,8 +976,13 @@ class TextIOWrapper(TextIOBase):
            except AttributeError:
                pass
            if encoding is None:
-                import locale
-                encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+                try:
+                    import locale
+                except ImportError:
+                    # Importing locale may fail if Python is being built
+                    encoding = "ascii"
+                else:
+                    encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()

        self.buffer = buffer
        self._encoding = encoding