Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
For completeness, here's the path leading to the reassignment (after hacking in a raise to the appropriate place in _localemodule.c). It's a side-effect of calling `locale.getpreferredencoding`. >>> help(int) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Users/mdickinson/GitHub/python/cpython/Lib/site.py", line 445, in __call__ import pydoc File "/Users/mdickinson/GitHub/python/cpython/Lib/pydoc.py", line 202, in <module> _encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() File "/Users/mdickinson/GitHub/python/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 616, in getpreferredencoding setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") File "/Users/mdickinson/GitHub/python/cpython/Lib/locale.py", line 581, in setlocale return _setlocale(category, locale) ValueError: about to reassign string.letters So a minimal reproducer is something like: Python 2.7.17 (default, Oct 20 2019, 14:46:50) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import string, locale >>> string.letters 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' >>> locale.getpreferredencoding() 'UTF-8' >>> string.letters 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39079> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com