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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Python/codecs.c9
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index bf5efba06b..2d7056582f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -450,6 +450,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs
+ registry.
+
- Issue #13781: Fix GzipFile bug that caused an exception to be raised when
opening for writing using a fileobj returned by os.fdopen().
diff --git a/Python/codecs.c b/Python/codecs.c
index 9b0c4b2f44..607feea81c 100644
--- a/Python/codecs.c
+++ b/Python/codecs.c
@@ -1041,15 +1041,6 @@ static int _PyCodecRegistry_Init(void)
mod = PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock("encodings");
if (mod == NULL) {
- if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_ImportError)) {
- /* 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. */
- PyErr_Clear();
- return 0;
- }
return -1;
}
Py_DECREF(mod);