[Python-Dev] bogus LANG setting results in "import site failed" message

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> [fredrik@brain src]$ export LANG=foobar
> [fredrik@brain src]$ ./python
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Python 2.0b1 (#4, Jul  7 2000, 12:23:15)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
> (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> Copyright 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
> >>>
> 
> that "import site" is a bit disturbing.  maybe the locale-checking
> code should handle this case a bit more gracefully?
> 
> (like, say, printing a more explicit warning message).

Here's the patch (Skip's locking the Lib dir ... grrr ;-):

--- CVS-Python/Lib/site.py      Wed Jun 28 17:30:57 2000
+++ Python+Unicode/Lib/site.py  Fri Jul  7 21:30:54 2000
@@ -124,11 +124,16 @@ del exit
 # encoding used by the default locale of this system. If the default
 # encoding cannot be determined or is unknown, it defaults to 'ascii'.
 #
 def locale_aware_defaultencoding():
     import locale
-    code, encoding = locale.get_default()
+    try:
+        code, encoding = locale.get_default()
+    except ValueError, why:
+        sys.stderr.write('Error setting default encoding (%s), using ASCII.\n' 
+                         % why)
+        encoding = None
     if encoding is None:
         encoding = 'ascii'
     try:
         sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)
     except LookupError:


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