Python Locales under windows

[Moof]

Hi there,
I'm trying to use some country-specific services provided by python
under Windows, and I'm coming up with a couple of problems, specifically
that floats are not being printed correctly when converted to strings
(they print out as 1,024.36 instead of 1.024,36), and also the contents
of \w inside a regexp, which I believe is equivalent to string.letters.

Under linux, I can get around this by setting the locale correctly.
Under windows, I'm buggered if I can work out how:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print "%.2f" % 1024.36 # should be '1024,36'[/color][/color][/color]
1024.36[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> string.letters #should be 54 letters here, including ñÑ[/color][/color][/color]
'abcdefghijklmn opqrstuvwxyzABC DEFGHIJKLMNOPQR STUVWXYZ'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> locale.getlocal e()[/color][/color][/color]
(None, None)[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> locale.getdefau ltlocale()[/color][/color][/color]
('es_ES', 'cp1252')[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , locale.getdefau ltlocale())[/color][/color][/color]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interacti ve input>", line 1, in ?
File "C:\Python23\li b\locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
return _setlocale(cate gory, locale)
Error: locale setting not supported

That's the clincher: I can't seem to set locales. Why is this? IS there
a way to get around this?

I'm using python 2.3 under Windows XP and 2K.

Moof

[дамјан г.]

Re: Python Locales under windows

[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> print "%.2f" % 1024.36 # should be '1024,36'[/color][/color]
> 1024.36[/color]

[Linux/ Python-2.3.1]
well this doesnt work under Linux neither, you need to use:

locale.format( "%.2f", 1024.36)

after setting the locale
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> string.letters #should be 54 letters here, including ñÑ[/color][/color]
> 'abcdefghijklmn opqrstuvwxyzABC DEFGHIJKLMNOPQR STUVWXYZ'[/color]

Its the same here even afer locale was set, but maybe thats because my Linux
locale is mk_MK.UTF8

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> I'm using python 2.3 under Windows XP and 2K.[/color]

There is "locale.windows _locale" that may help you, although I don't
knowwhat this dictionary is about.

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