[Python-Dev] locale and LC_NUMERIC (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 00:14:48 CET 2006

On 1/9/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> > I would have expected the first call to setlocale() to return deDE.

No, it shouldn't. We are providing C semantics here, which is that no locale functionality is activated unless the application explicitly asks for it.

Thanks (to /f too). That was the part that I was missing. It makes sense now.

I made the patch to do this. It's called before each class' test run in regrtest.py. I would prefer to set the locale before each test method run, but I need to muck with unittest for that IIRC.

There were 2 failures. One was in test_email which needs the C locale for generating the proper timestamp. The other was (IIRC) in test_re, 2 methods failed. So we are hopefully in decent shape.

n

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