[New-bugs-announce] [issue36778] test_site.StartupImportTests.test_startup_imports fails if default code page is not cp1252

Paul Monson report at bugs.python.org
Thu May 2 16:46:25 EDT 2019


New submission from Paul Monson <paulmons at gmail.com>:

Windows desktop skus have a default ANSI codepage (returned by GetACP()) of 1252 (Western European).  Windows IoT Core and Windows Nano Server have a default codepage of 65001 (UTF-8). 

This causes test_site.StartupImportTests.test_startup_imports to fail on Windows IoT Core and Windows Nano Server because cp65001.py is loaded instead of the frozen cp1252.py at startup.

I tried changing the default codepage to 65001 on my dev machine and rebuilding Python and it had no effect that I could tell on the generated frozen importlibs.

The simplest solutions would be for the test_startup_imports test to be skipped or changed to pass when the locale.getpreferredencoding() returns 'cp65001'

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components: Tests, Windows
messages: 341316
nosy: Paul Monson, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: test_site.StartupImportTests.test_startup_imports fails if default code page is not cp1252
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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