Alex Martelli <aleax@aleax.it> writes: > in the midst of the imports (just before encodings/__init__.py): > open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = 3 That is the effect of nl_langinfo(CODESET). Regards, Martin