Close #11022: TextIOWrapper doesn't call locale.setlocale() anymore

open() and io.TextIOWrapper are now calling locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
instead of locale.getpreferredencoding() in text mode if the encoding is not
specified. Don't change temporary the locale encoding using locale.setlocale(),
use the current locale encoding instead of the user preferred encoding.

Explain also in open() documentation that locale.getpreferredencoding(False) is
called if the encoding is not specified.

Lib/test/test_builtin.py

@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@
 # Python test set -- built-in functions
 
-import platform
-import unittest
-import sys
-import warnings
+import ast
+import builtins
 import collections
 import io
+import locale
 import os
-import ast
-import types
-import builtins
-import random
-import traceback
-from test.support import TESTFN, unlink,  run_unittest, check_warnings
-from operator import neg
 import pickle
+import platform
+import random
+import sys
+import traceback
+import types
+import unittest
+import warnings
+from operator import neg
+from test.support import TESTFN, unlink,  run_unittest, check_warnings
 try:
     import pty, signal
 except ImportError:
@@ -961,6 +962,27 @@ class BuiltinTest(unittest.TestCase):
             fp.close()
         unlink(TESTFN)
 
+    def test_open_default_encoding(self):
+        old_environ = dict(os.environ)
+        try:
+            # try to get a user preferred encoding different than the current
+            # locale encoding to check that open() uses the current locale
+            # encoding and not the user preferred encoding
+            for key in ('LC_ALL', 'LANG', 'LC_CTYPE'):
+                if key in os.environ:
+                    del os.environ[key]
+
+            self.write_testfile()
+            current_locale_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
+            fp = open(TESTFN, 'w')
+            try:
+                self.assertEqual(fp.encoding, current_locale_encoding)
+            finally:
+                fp.close()
+        finally:
+            os.environ.clear()
+            os.environ.update(old_environ)
+
     def test_ord(self):
         self.assertEqual(ord(' '), 32)
         self.assertEqual(ord('A'), 65)

Lib/test/test_io.py

@@ -19,20 +19,21 @@
 # test both implementations. This file has lots of examples.
 ################################################################################
 
+import abc
+import array
+import errno
+import locale
 import os
+import pickle
+import random
+import signal
 import sys
 import time
-import array
-import random
 import unittest
-import weakref
-import abc
-import signal
-import errno
 import warnings
-import pickle
-from itertools import cycle, count
+import weakref
 from collections import deque
+from itertools import cycle, count
 from test import support
 
 import codecs
@@ -1881,6 +1882,24 @@ class TextIOWrapperTest(unittest.TestCase):
         t.write("A\rB")
         self.assertEqual(r.getvalue(), b"XY\nZA\rB")
 
+    def test_default_encoding(self):
+        old_environ = dict(os.environ)
+        try:
+            # try to get a user preferred encoding different than the current
+            # locale encoding to check that TextIOWrapper() uses the current
+            # locale encoding and not the user preferred encoding
+            for key in ('LC_ALL', 'LANG', 'LC_CTYPE'):
+                if key in os.environ:
+                    del os.environ[key]
+
+            current_locale_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
+            b = self.BytesIO()
+            t = self.TextIOWrapper(b)
+            self.assertEqual(t.encoding, current_locale_encoding)
+        finally:
+            os.environ.clear()
+            os.environ.update(old_environ)
+
     def test_encoding(self):
         # Check the encoding attribute is always set, and valid
         b = self.BytesIO()