Martin von Loewis: Re: Quest: Re: Locale breakage on alpha

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Date:    Tue, 18 Mar 2003 07:49:18 +0100
From:    Martin von Loewis <[email protected]>
To:      [email protected] (Guido van Rossum)
cc:      [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: Quest: Re: [snake-farm] Locale breakage on alpha

> Are you following the snake-farm list?  This problem seems in your
> area...

No, I'm not.

>   try:
>       TESTFN_ENCODED = TESTFN_UNICODE.encode(TESTFN_ENCODING)
>   except (ImportError, TypeError):
>       # Either the file system encoding is None, or the file name
>       # cannot be encoded in the file system encoding.
>       raise TestSkipped("No Unicode filesystem semantics on this platform.")
> 
> Maybe the UnicodeEncodeError should be caught here instead (in
> addition)?

Indeed, UnicodeError should be caught instead of ImportError. 
LookupError is not supposed to happen, since Python verifies at startup
that the encoding is supported.

Regards,
Martin

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