Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: After some more digging, it looks as though this is due to the Tkinter import (that ends up happening as a result of test___all__) changing the locale(?), and in particular the meaning of isalpha:
Python 2.7a4+ (trunk:79716, Apr 3 2010, 22:06:18) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> str.isalpha(chr(255)) False [34999 refs] >>> import Tkinter [51283 refs] >>> str.isalpha(chr(255)) True [51283 refs] (Is there some way that I can see the locale change more explicitly from Python?) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8307> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com