Re: Setting my Locale

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:52:21 -0300, Robert Rawlins
<robert.rawlins @thinkbluemedia .co.ukescribiï¿ ½:

I'm running python 2.5 on a Debian based system and I'm looking for your
advice on how to set the locale for my application. I've read through the
locale module documentation http://docs.python.org/lib/module-locale.html
and tried a couple of the examples but can't seem to get it working.
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For instance, when I attempt to run the following code:
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import locale
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locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , 'de_DE')
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I get an exception raised by the application which says:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "locale_test.py ", line 2, in <module>
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locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , 'de_DE')
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File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 478, in setlocale
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return _setlocale(cate gory, locale)
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locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
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My questions are; what would be causing this error? Do I need any
additional
packages installed on the system for this locale support to work
properly?

Probably you don't have support for 'de_DE' locale.
Try using locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , '')
and see what you get in response.

How can I get a list of available locales?

I'd like to know how to retrieve that too...

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Gabriel Genellina