Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Thanks, Ronald! The patch fixes the problem for me. (I directly patched the locale.py file installed from the Python dmg, since I still haven't figured out how to build a python executable that exhibits this problem.)
The patch doesn't look quite right, though: in the else clause, it looks as though you're testing 'result' before it exists. Shouldn't the 'result = nl_langinfo(CODESET)' line come before the 'if not result and ....' line? On the subject of Terminal and LANG, LC_CTYPE settings, I found an interesting link: http://pastie.textmate.org/111807 Indeed, after setting my region to 'South Africa' in Preferences -> International -> Formats, a newly opened Terminal window gives me: newton:~ dickinsm$ locale LANG= LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE="UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_ALL= And then python3 crashes on startup as above. This is on a newborn (3- week old) MacBook Pro that's been barely changed from default settings (and no transfer of files and settings from an old Mac, either). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6393> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
