Fatal "can't locate locale" errors when zip file with directories is on the PYTHONPATH.

[nedbat]

BPO	11065
Nosy	@nedbat
Superseder	bpo-10955: Possible regression with stdlib in zipfile

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closed_at = <Date 2011-01-29.19:38:23.891>
created_at = <Date 2011-01-29.19:12:29.689>
labels = ['type-bug']
title = 'Fatal "can\'t locate locale" errors when zip file with directories is on the PYTHONPATH.'
updated_at = <Date 2011-01-29.19:38:23.891>
user = 'https://github.com/nedbat'

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activity = <Date 2011-01-29.19:38:23.891>
actor = 'ned.deily'
assignee = 'none'
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closed_date = <Date 2011-01-29.19:38:23.891>
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creation = <Date 2011-01-29.19:12:29.689>
creator = 'nedbat'
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issue_num = 11065
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
superseder = '10955'
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue11065'
versions = ['Python 3.2']

[nedbat]

Run this shell script against 3.2, and it will fail. Against 3.1, it succeeds. I've been running tests on Ubuntu 10.10.

mkdir -p sub
cat >sub/modzip.py <<END_PY
j = 1
END_PY
zip zipmod.zip sub/modzip.py
PYTHONPATH=zipmod.zip python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"

The failure I get is:

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding

[nedbat]

With help from ned_deily in #python-dev, we confirmed this is a dup of http://bugs.python.org/issue10955, and is already fixed.