Python and i18n

[João Alfredo]

Hi people.

My LANG environment variable is set to pt_BR.UTF-8 and when raw a date
command:

$ date
Sáb Out 18 11:19:42 BRT 2003
I get the current date in the apropriate locale.

Now when i raw the following command in the python interpreter:

$ python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import time
>>> time.asctime()[/color][/color][/color]
'Sat Oct 18 11:25:19 2003'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]
i get the date in US locale format.

So, does python support the pt_BR locale?? Am I doing something wrong??

Thanks in advance!

--
João Alfredo <jagbdotx@yahoo .com.br>
dotX

[Martin v. Löwis]

Re: Python and i18n

João Alfredo wrote:

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> So, does python support the pt_BR locale?? Am I doing something wrong??[/color]

Yes, and yes. You have to invoke locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL ,"")
first.

Regards,
Martin

[Peter Otten]

Re: Python and i18n

João Alfredo wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi people.
>
> My LANG environment variable is set to pt_BR.UTF-8 and when raw a date
> command:
>
> $ date
> Sáb Out 18 11:19:42 BRT 2003
> I get the current date in the apropriate locale.
>
> Now when i raw the following command in the python interpreter:
>
> $ python
> Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
> [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> import time
>>>> time.asctime()[/color][/color]
> 'Sat Oct 18 11:25:19 2003'[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>>[/color][/color]
> i get the date in US locale format.
>
> So, does python support the pt_BR locale?? Am I doing something wrong??[/color]

You have to set the locale explicitly:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , ("pt", None))[/color][/color][/color]
'pt_PT.ISO8859-1'

Even then asctime() will not work as you wish:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> time.asctime()[/color][/color][/color]
'Sat Oct 18 20:44:29 2003'


But strftime() has it right:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> time.strftime(" %c")[/color][/color][/color]
'S\xe1b 18 Out 2003 20:44:44 CEST'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print time.strftime(" %c")[/color][/color][/color]
Sáb 18 Out 2003 20:44:54 CEST[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

Peter