Catch locale.error as well. Fixes #788378. Will backport to 2.3.

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
index 0c3ae7f85e1427a70e810e65562e02c22417a345..391be77f53b53249ff51ab3920b13f8073274a1b 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ except ImportError:
 try:
     import locale
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "")
-except ImportError:
+except (ImportError, locale.error):
     pass
 
 encoding = "ascii"