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authorTony Lownds <tony@lownds.com>2002-09-23 01:01:20 (GMT)
committerTony Lownds <tony@lownds.com>2002-09-23 01:01:20 (GMT)
commite555fc76a762a830ed067993fd6073bc69da123f (patch)
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parentf18efa56437ea50fac959c9dde5055ce05da2237 (diff)
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Work around Mac OS X platform encoding issues.
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-rw-r--r--Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
index 58d1913..10129e9 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ else:
# resulting codeset may be unknown to Python. We ignore all
# these problems, falling back to ASCII
encoding = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET)
+ if encoding is None:
+ # situation occurs on Mac OS X
+ encoding = 'ascii'
codecs.lookup(encoding)
except (NameError, AttributeError, LookupError):
# Try getdefaultlocale well: it parses environment variables,
@@ -72,6 +75,9 @@ else:
# bugs that can cause ValueError.
try:
encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+ if encoding is None:
+ # situation occurs on Mac OS X
+ encoding = 'ascii'
codecs.lookup(encoding)
except (ValueError, LookupError):
pass