[Python-Dev] What is test__locale supposed to test, anyhow? (original) (raw)

Nick Bastin nbastin at opnet.com
Thu Jul 15 07:02:39 CEST 2004

On Jul 14, 2004, at 10:10 PM, Brett C. wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Nick Bastin wrote: Well, it seems we ought to have some kind of test that locale is working properly. The current test doesn't seem to fit the bill. It qualifies as some test, though. Remember that there is also testlocale.py. But not on OS X. It raises TestSkipped saying how locale support is so minimal that it isn't worth testing.

Yeah, I'm going remove that and test it out...that message may be bogus at this point - it was put there a year and a half ago by Jack, and I'm reasonably sure that no one's tested it since (and I don't believe it anyhow - it's more like Python's support is bad - MacOS X's support for locale is pretty good). We've definitely got something strange going on with locale, however, since I can't make it work at all in python, but it works fine outside of Python.

-- Nick

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