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-rw-r--r--Lib/site.py5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index 1c25f50..a9f5480 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ else:
# default is 'ascii', but if you're willing to experiment, you can
# change this.
-encoding = "ascii" # default
+encoding = "ascii" # Default value set by _PyUnicode_Init()
if 0:
# Enable to support locale aware default string encodings.
@@ -189,7 +189,8 @@ if 0:
# Unicode to string conversion.
encoding = "undefined"
-sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)
+if encoding != "ascii":
+ sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)
#
# Run custom site specific code, if available.