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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Python/sysmodule.c5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fff54b8..e9f0a59 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
+ called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
+
- Issue #11393: Add the new faulthandler module.
- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 33255ad..fdf361f 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -259,8 +259,9 @@ sys_getfilesystemencoding(PyObject *self)
{
if (Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding)
return PyUnicode_FromString(Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding);
- Py_INCREF(Py_None);
- return Py_None;
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError,
+ "filesystem encoding is not initialized");
+ return NULL;
}
PyDoc_STRVAR(getfilesystemencoding_doc,