From 64c514277840191fd139f9b2df31f0f4b5cbf289 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Inada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:00:20 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] TextIOWrapper.reconfigure() supports "locale" encoding.

---
 Lib/_pyio.py         |  2 ++
 Modules/_io/textio.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
index 380a7a736c64e9..0f647eed99d81b 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyio.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -2161,6 +2161,8 @@ def reconfigure(self, *,
         else:
             if not isinstance(encoding, str):
                 raise TypeError("invalid encoding: %r" % encoding)
+            if encoding == "locale":
+                encoding = locale.getencoding()
 
         if newline is Ellipsis:
             newline = self._readnl
diff --git a/Modules/_io/textio.c b/Modules/_io/textio.c
index f1cd6d01da8597..3cbaca3ef46069 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/textio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/textio.c
@@ -1248,8 +1248,16 @@ textiowrapper_change_encoding(textio *self, PyObject *encoding,
             errors = self->errors;
         }
     }
-    else if (errors == Py_None) {
-        errors = &_Py_ID(strict);
+    else {
+        if (_PyUnicode_EqualToASCIIString(encoding, "locale")) {
+            encoding = _Py_GetLocaleEncodingObject();
+            if (encoding == NULL) {
+                return -1;
+            }
+        }
+        if (errors == Py_None) {
+            errors = &_Py_ID(strict);
+        }
     }
 
     const char *c_errors = PyUnicode_AsUTF8(errors);

From 429298b9b7c2bca49ee53aa9833a476ed13c3726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Inada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:04:29 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add NEWS entry and update the doc

---
 Doc/library/io.rst                                             | 3 +++
 .../next/Library/2022-04-27-18-04-24.gh-issue-91952.9A4RXx.rst | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-27-18-04-24.gh-issue-91952.9A4RXx.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 82757539c62ac1..fdeae9b67465ec 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -1038,6 +1038,9 @@ Text I/O
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.7
 
+      .. versionchanged:: 3.11
+         The method supports ``encoding="locale"`` option.
+
 
 .. class:: StringIO(initial_value='', newline='\\n')
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-27-18-04-24.gh-issue-91952.9A4RXx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-27-18-04-24.gh-issue-91952.9A4RXx.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a0b48d16fe866d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-27-18-04-24.gh-issue-91952.9A4RXx.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add ``encoding="locale"`` support to :meth:`TextIOWrapper.reconfigure`.