Neal Norwitz wrote: > > No. %-formatting should always use the C locale. One should use > > locale.format to get locale-aware formatting. > > I know very little about locale's. /f assigned me a bug > http://python.org/sf/1391872 which suggests I run all the tests in a > different locale than C. I think this is a good idea, but when I set > LANG or LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE in the env't the locale isn't set without > me calling locale.setlocale(). Shouldn't we maintain the value from > the env't?
the locale is a global program setting, and should only be "activated" when it's actually needed. my rationale for running the tests with a non-US locale was to increase the chance of catching bugs where the external locale setting affects Python's behaviour. maybe it would be a good idea to add a "use setlocale" flag to the test- runner ? </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
