Richard Mines added the comment:
If you need a proof that it is possible that locale.LC_MESSAGES doesn't exist,
I've attached a screenshot. Even more I'm showing that locale.LC_TIME may be
equal to 5 which is a placeholder for locale.LC_MESSAGES if there is an
ImportError:
Jack DeVries added the comment:
Follow-up: nope! My hypothesis was incorrect. This is all that _localemodule.c
has to say about LC_MESSAGES:
#ifdef LC_MESSAGES
ADD_INT(module, LC_MESSAGES);
#endif /* LC_MESSAGES */
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Jack DeVries added the comment:
Could it be that _locale throws an ImportError whenever LC_MESSAGES doesn't
exist? Then, there are fall-backs defined here:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/62f1d2b3d7dda99598d053e10b785c463fdcf591/Lib/locale.py#L45-L85
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nosy: +jack__d
New submission from Richard Mines :
Documentation page:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/locale.html#locale.LC_MESSAGES
Code comment saying that locale.LC_MESSAGES doesn't exist sometimes:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/62f1d2b3d7dda99598d053e10b785c463fdcf591/Lib/locale.py#L25-L26
