On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
> The one area Python has disappointed me is with its locale module. For a
> single application, the locale module works fine, but it is not thread
> safe and thus can not be used with many Python web server frameworks.
>
> I have posted multiple times to the python mailing list asking how
> others are handling this issue, but have never received a reply.
>
> Do you guys have any suggestions? (My situation: A cherrypy based web
> server application where each session may want to operate with a
> different locale).
Locale works process-wide, not thread-wide. Setting it affects
everything in that process.
You could try using the multiprocessing module instead of threading;
I've never used it in the context of a web server, but it's worth a shot.
Otherwise, you'll have to implement some thread-level storage of locale values
and maintain it manually.
-- Ed Leafe
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