Detect Apple bug that prevents the joystick code compiling for OS X 10.1

[wxWidgets.git] / wxPython / src / _core_ex.py

diff --git a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
index 45f7eeab6d73aaa96060c9547802951af4a717ee..5ad0d81365bc2e83cdbfb950258cfea74564d9f4 100644 (file)
--- a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
+++ b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
@@ -32,11 +32,15 @@ if RELEASE_VERSION != _core_.RELEASE_VERSION:
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-# Set the default string<-->unicode conversion encoding from the
-# locale.  This encoding is used when string or unicode objects need
-# to be converted in order to pass them to wxWidgets.  Please be aware
-# that the default encoding within the same locale may be slightly
-# different on different platforms.  For example, please see
+# Set wxPython's default string<-->unicode conversion encoding from
+# the locale, but only if Python's default hasn't been changed.  (We
+# assume that if the user has customized it already then that is the
+# encoding we need to use as well.)
+#
+# The encoding selected here is used when string or unicode objects
+# need to be converted in order to pass them to wxWidgets.  Please be
+# aware that the default encoding within the same locale may be
+# slightly different on different platforms.  For example, please see
 # http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html for differences
 # between the common latin/roman encodings.
 
@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@ if default == 'ascii':
     try:
         default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
         codecs.lookup(default)
-    except (ValueError, LookupError):
+    except (ValueError, LookupError, TypeError):
         default = _sys.getdefaultencoding()
     del locale
     del codecs