From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:14:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #808719: Ignore the locale's encoding if it is an empty string.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a3~282
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a9170c7eac4801d39e1fa813688e6826245b2258;p=python

Patch #808719: Ignore the locale's encoding if it is an empty string.
Backported to 2.3.
---

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
index 7baf8ccae6..4d67292353 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ else:
         # resulting codeset may be unknown to Python. We ignore all
         # these problems, falling back to ASCII
         encoding = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET)
-        if encoding is None:
+        if encoding is None or encoding is '':
             # situation occurs on Mac OS X
             encoding = 'ascii'
         codecs.lookup(encoding)
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ else:
         # bugs that can cause ValueError.
         try:
             encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
-            if encoding is None:
+            if encoding is None or encoding is '':
                 # situation occurs on Mac OS X
                 encoding = 'ascii'
             codecs.lookup(encoding)