On 11 Jan 2005 05:49:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jorgen Grahn wrote: > [snip] > >> >> frailea> cat foo >> import locale >> print locale.getlocale() >> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE) >> print locale.getlocale()
... >> When I run it as a script it isn't though, and the setlocale() call > does not >> appear to fall back to looking at $LANG as it's supposed to(?), so my >> LC_CTYPE remains in the POSIX locale: ... >> So, is this my fault or Python's? I realize I could just adapt and > set >> $LC_CTYPE explicitly in my environment, but I don't want to > capitulate for a >> Python bug, if that's what this is. > > Try locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE,"") as in your C program. Oops, you are right. locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE,"") sets the locale from my environment (and gets it right!) while locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE) /returns/ the current locale. I don't know how I could have missed that, since it's clearly documented and also maps directly to C usage. > It would > be great if locale.setlocale with one parameter would be deprecated, > because it suddenly acts like getlocale. It's unpythonic. I dislike the term "unpythonic", but I tend to agree with you in practice here. Even better, but maybe not feasible, would be an approach to locales which doesn't involve changing a global state in this fashion. > By the way, since you took time to setup various LC_* variables there > is no need to play with LC_CTYPE category. Just use the standard idiom. > import locale > locale.setlocale(LC_ALL,"") Thanks for pointing that out. I picked out LC_CTYPE for my small program because I was in a hurry and didn't want to risk non-standard sorting elsewhere in the program. I hate what the LC_COLLATE=C does to swedish national characters, but I hate what LC_COLLATE=sv_SE does to non-alphabetic characters even more. To paraphrase Barbie: "i18n is hard". ;-) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
