repl.py attempts to load a history file using locale.getpreferredencoding().

However, on OS X (10.6, Snow Leopard, US edition), this function returns and empty string on Python 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7. And attempting to load a file with an empty encoding raises an exception.

The following is a quick fix to repl.py, but I don't know if it breaks other platforms:

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<             self.rl_history.load(pythonhist, getpreferredencoding())

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>             self.rl_history.load(pythonhist, getpreferredencoding() or 'ascii')

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bobf/bpython/issue/132
• Originally Reported By: Anonymous
• Originally Created At: 2010-07-21T08:27:05.297