[Tutor] Python for Windows: module re, re.LOCALE different fo r Idle and p ython shell? (original) (raw)

Steve lonetwin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 29 15:20:25 CEST 2004

Hi Ralf,

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:22:11 +0200, Steckel, Ralf <ralf.steckel at atosorigin.com> wrote:

thanx for your suggestion (what actually made me to improve my script by opening the file via codecs), but this doesn't fix the problem.

You are welcome.

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By using the codecs.open with encoding = 'iso-8859-1' my basic problem (re doesn't recognize German Umlaute as valid characters in re in Python shell) still exists.

Oh ok. Well unfortunately, I am reading this using the gmail web

interface and I ran your script on my linux box, and so I can't reproduce the behaviour that you are experiencing. In any case, this seems to be (like you, yourself mentioned) a problem with the environment rather than with python, so here's another shot in the dark. ....have you considered setting a default locale for the script by using the 'locale' module ??

ie: import locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE')

HTH Steve

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