From 5011263bf03f2bb751603f995ee5cbfa992713c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Willmer <alex@moreati.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:59:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] mitogen: Use built-in _codecs module to encode latin1

Streamlines initilialzation slightly. Next commit will do the same for utf-8.
---
 mitogen/core.py | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mitogen/core.py b/mitogen/core.py
index 47b43240..e9ef0466 100644
--- a/mitogen/core.py
+++ b/mitogen/core.py
@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ else:
         del i, mpf
 
 
+import _codecs
 import binascii
 import collections
-import encodings.latin_1
 import encodings.utf_8
 import errno
 import fcntl
@@ -133,10 +133,6 @@ LOG = logging.getLogger('mitogen')
 IOLOG = logging.getLogger('mitogen.io')
 IOLOG.setLevel(logging.INFO)
 
-# str.encode() may take import lock. Deadlock possible if broker calls
-# .encode() on behalf of thread currently waiting for module.
-LATIN1_CODEC = encodings.latin_1.Codec()
-
 _v = False
 _vv = False
 
@@ -881,7 +877,7 @@ class Message(object):
         return _unpickle_sender(self.router, context_id, dst_handle)
 
     def _unpickle_bytes(self, s, encoding):
-        s, n = LATIN1_CODEC.encode(s)
+        s, n = _codecs.latin_1_encode(s)
         return s
 
     def _find_global(self, module, func):