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

Steckel, Ralf Ralf.Steckel at AtosOrigin.com
Thu Jul 29 16:29:58 CEST 2004

Hi Steve,

the locale module led me on the right track:

In Idle 'loc=locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)' prints '['de_DE', '1252']'. In python shell 'loc=locale.getlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE)' prints '(None,None)'.

Setting the default locale by 'locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')' sets the locale to ['de_DE', '1252'].

Setting 'de_DE' or 'en_EN' or 'POSIX' always reports 'unsupported locale setting'. The only other possible locale setting which i got working is 'C'.

By the way if i call in Idle 'locale.getlocale(locale.LC_ALL)' before setting the LC_ALL i get the following runtime error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Src\Python\wordcount\umlaute.py", line 3, in -toplevel- loc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_ALL) File "D:\Python23\Lib\locale.py", line 364, in getlocale raise TypeError, 'category LC_ALL is not supported' TypeError: category LC_ALL is not supported

But nevertheless, by setting the locale to the default locale on a German Windows OS i get what I want.

Thank you,

Steve!

-----Original Message----- From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Steve Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:20 PM To: tutor at python.org Subject: Re: RE: [Tutor] Python for Windows: module re, re.LOCALE different fo r Idle and p ython shell?

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. <...snip...> > 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.LCALL, 'deDE') HTH Steve

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