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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_re.py2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS8
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 9acd5ab..407f346 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
def test_locale_flag(self):
import locale
- _, enc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)
+ enc = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
# Search non-ASCII letter
for i in range(128, 256):
try:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fe50135..c750d5c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ Documentation
- Issue #29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #29571: to match the behaviour of the ``re.LOCALE`` flag,
+ test_re.test_locale_flag now uses ``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` to
+ determine the candidate encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly
+ skip the test when the default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding)
+
What's New in Python 3.5.3?
===========================