Tim/Paul/Tony Thanks for the suggestions and bringing clarity to the issue. After understanding your suggestions, I want to go striaght to the actual issue down below that made me to post environment issue. The actual issue/Problem: Its kind of funny tome right now, but letme shoot the problem so that we can have a clear cut idea as in whats the bug in python, or may be I don;t know I am missing on something. I using locale.setlocale and u guys know when we use this setlocale. Yes I am working on Localising my application-a pygtk application. When one says import locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ' ')
This sets the locale for all categories to the user's default setting (typically specified in the LANG environment variable). I use Python2.4 Before I start my application from the DOS command prompt, run this command at the cmd prompt to set LANG environment. Which is "set LANG=ja_JP" And now if I run my python(that uses pygtk ) application it starts up and locale.setlocale able to read this LANG variable and do the needed setting for the locale. But if I don;t define this variable at the command prompt before I start the python application, but I define the environmen variable LANG like os.environ['LANG'] = 'ja_JP'. Then the setlocale doesn't set the locale as needed. But here is the catch. If I am using python2.3 and do the above, the setlocole set the locale as needede on the fly. Whats going on ......I don;t know. If u guys know your suggestions are needed. On 5/11/05, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:41:30 -0700, Tony C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Your example didn't try to define the variable, it only attempted to > >look at it's current value > > > >try this > > > > > >>> C:\Tmp>set LANG > >>> Environment variable LANG not defined > >>> > >>> > > > >C:\tmp> set LANG="SOME_LANGUAGE" > >set LANG > >LANG="SOME_LANGUAGE" > > > > > > I replied to Tony privately, because I did not see that he responded > both to me and to the list. I'll repeat the reply here. > > This misses the point. I DID define the variable inside the Python > code, and the process that I launched from Python (using os.system) DID > inherit that variable. That's the best you can do: you can change the > environment for the processes you start, but you cannot change the > environment of the process that started you. > > -- > Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-win32 mailing list > Python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
