Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > It would still be better it is was unset afterwards. Third-party > extensions could have LC_CTYPE-dependent behaviour.
In principle, they could, yes - but what specific behavior might that be? What will change is character classification, which I consider fairly harmless. Also, multi-byte conversion routines will change, which is the primary reason for leaving it modified. ---------- title: 3.x locale does not default to C, contrary to the documentation and to 2.x behavior -> 3.x locale does not default to C, contrary to the documentation and to 2.x behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6203> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com