[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-616002 ] getdefaultlocale failure on OS X

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Bugs item #616002, was opened at 2002-09-29 00:20
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Category: IDLE
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Brian Lenihan (brianl)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: getdefaultlocale failure on OS X

Initial Comment:
My OS X laptop did not have LANG  set in the bash
envrionment and idle (AquaTK) failed to launch with an
AttributeError in IOBinding.py

        try:
            encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
            codecs.lookup(encoding)
        except (ValueError, LookupError):
            pass

encoding = encoding.lower()
^^^^^

encoding is None here because locale.getdefaultlocale()
returns (None, None) when the locale can't be determined.

After finding that adding LANG=en_US to my .bashrc
didn't help, I Iearned OS X GUI apps don't use the
shell's environment, but do use whatever they find in
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.  Adding a couple lines:

        <key>LANG</key>
        <string>en_US</string>

makes idle happy.   An alternative would be to make
sure encoding never gets set to None.

--- IOBinding.py.orig   Sat Sep 28 17:17:02 2002
+++ IOBinding.py        Sat Sep 28 17:17:42 2002
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
         # which may give a clue. Unfortunately,
getdefaultlocale has
         # bugs that can cause ValueError.
         try:
-            encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+            encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] or
'ascii'
             codecs.lookup(encoding)
         except (ValueError, LookupError):
             pass
 




 
 



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