On 1/8/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neal Norwitz wrote: > > 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? > > I feel I'm lacking some link here: why do you think we should do that?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/build/python/svn/clean-ish $ LC_ALL=de_DE ./python >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL) 'C' >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE') 'de_DE' I would have expected the first call to setlocale() to return de_DE. /f solution of adding a flag to the test runner should work for the bug report I mentioned. Part of the reason why I asked was because I'm confused by the current behaviour. Is the first call to setlocale() supposed to return C? If so, always? I was looking for some way for the initial call to setlocale() to return de_DE or whatever other locale I set. > What does "start with the correct locale" mean? What is the "correct > locale"? Python should work in any locale, Hopefully my explanation above answered all those questions. > and locale.format > should always give the locale-specific formatting, whereas "%f" % value > should always give the result from the "C" locale (regardless of > whether the application has called setlocale or not). Right. I'm working on a patch for this problem which is independent of what I was asking. I really should have started a new thread, but I wasn't completely sure when I asked if there was a relationship. Also, in Georg's snippet, he didn't show that he was setting the locale, only what it was set to. n _______________________________________________ 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
