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-rw-r--r--Lib/site.py25
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_site.py8
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index f108432..51516aa 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -460,25 +460,6 @@ def aliasmbcs():
encodings._cache[enc] = encodings._unknown
encodings.aliases.aliases[enc] = 'mbcs'
-def setencoding():
- """Set the string encoding used by the Unicode implementation. The
- default is 'ascii', but if you're willing to experiment, you can
- change this."""
- encoding = "ascii" # Default value set by _PyUnicode_Init()
- if 0:
- # Enable to support locale aware default string encodings.
- import locale
- loc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
- if loc[1]:
- encoding = loc[1]
- if 0:
- # Enable to switch off string to Unicode coercion and implicit
- # Unicode to string conversion.
- encoding = "undefined"
- if encoding != "ascii":
- # On Non-Unicode builds this will raise an AttributeError...
- sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build !
-
def execsitecustomize():
"""Run custom site specific code, if available."""
@@ -527,15 +508,9 @@ def main():
setcopyright()
sethelper()
aliasmbcs()
- setencoding()
execsitecustomize()
if ENABLE_USER_SITE:
execusercustomize()
- # Remove sys.setdefaultencoding() so that users cannot change the
- # encoding after initialization. The test for presence is needed when
- # this module is run as a script, because this code is executed twice.
- if hasattr(sys, "setdefaultencoding"):
- del sys.setdefaultencoding
main()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_site.py b/Lib/test/test_site.py
index 013bfe1..8d03224 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_site.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_site.py
@@ -29,10 +29,6 @@ if not os.path.isdir(site.USER_SITE):
class HelperFunctionsTests(unittest.TestCase):
"""Tests for helper functions.
-
- The setting of the encoding (set using sys.setdefaultencoding) used by
- the Unicode implementation is not tested.
-
"""
def setUp(self):
@@ -333,10 +329,6 @@ class ImportSideEffectTests(unittest.TestCase):
else:
self.fail("did not alias mbcs")
- def test_setdefaultencoding_removed(self):
- # Make sure sys.setdefaultencoding is gone
- self.assertTrue(not hasattr(sys, "setdefaultencoding"))
-
def test_sitecustomize_executed(self):
# If sitecustomize is available, it should have been imported.
if "sitecustomize" not in sys.modules: