locale.getlocale() strange behaviour

[Benoît Dejean]

here are my locales


benoit@athlon >> locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR .UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_ FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR. UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_ FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr _FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr _FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR .UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR. UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_ FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="f r_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT= "fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATI ON="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=fr_FR.UT F-8



(full utf-8 system)


[color=blue][color=green]
>> python2.3 -c 'import locale; print locale.getlocal e()'[/color][/color]
(None, None)
[color=blue][color=green]
>> python2.2 -c 'import locale; print locale.getlocal e()'[/color][/color]
(None, None)
[color=blue][color=green]
>> python2.3[/color][/color]
Python 2.3.3 (#2, Feb 24 2004, 09:29:20)
[GCC 3.3.3 (Debian)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocal e()[/color][/color][/color]
(None, None)

[color=blue][color=green]
>> python2.2[/color][/color]
Python 2.2.3+ (#1, Feb 25 2004, 23:29:31)
[GCC 3.3.3 (Debian)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocal e()[/color][/color][/color]
['fr_FR', 'utf']


2.3 fails getting locale
but 2.2 also fails when running inline :/

makes me crazy :D

[Jeff Epler]

Re: locale.getlocal e() strange behaviour

Just as in C programs, the LANG and LC_* environment variables have no
effect until setlocale is called with "" as the second argument.

On my system:
$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
$ python -c 'import locale; print locale.getlocal e()'
(None, None)
$ python -c 'import locale; locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , ""); print locale.getlocal e()'
['en_US', 'utf']

In Python2.2 on my system, setlocale() is called by rl_initialize() when
I run the interactive interpreter.
$ python -c 'import locale; import readline; print locale.getlocal e()'
['en_US', 'utf']
this may explain the behavior you noticed.

Jeff

[Benoît Dejean]

Re: locale.getlocal e() strange behaviour

Le Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:09:26 -0600, Jeff Epler a écrit :[color=blue]
>
> In Python2.2 on my system, setlocale() is called by rl_initialize() when
> I run the interactive interpreter.
> $ python -c 'import locale; import readline; print locale.getlocal e()'
> ['en_US', 'utf']
> this may explain the behavior you noticed.[/color]

thanks a lot