New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr>:
In _PyCodecRegistry_Init() (in Python/codecs.c), it is attempted to import the
encodings module (so that the default search function gets registered) and
failures get ignored following the same reasoning:
/* Ignore ImportErrors... this is done so that
distributions can disable the encodings package. Note
that other errors are not masked, e.g. SystemErrors
raised to inform the user of an error in the Python
configuration are still reported back to the user. */
However, it is unlikely for Python 3 to start up at all without an encodings
package (we needs some codecs to initialize stdio). Also, I'm not sure what the
point would be. Distributions can simply distribute a dummy encodings module if
they really want to disable the default encodings.
Not silencing the error would probably make it easier to diagnose early import
issues.
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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 150767
nosy: amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, pitrou
priority: low
severity: normal
status: open
title: "distributions can disable the encodings package"
versions: Python 3.3
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