"maxinbjohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dear friends, | | I am a Python programmer from Kerala, India. When I tried to run a | simple python program which uses the Malayalam language (ml), | | import os | import locale | os.environ['LANG']='ml' | print locale.getdefaultlocale() | | | It throws the following error : | | Traceback (most recent call last): | File "test.py", line 4, in ? | print locale.getdefaultlocale() | File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 346, in | getdefaultlocale | return _parse_localename(localename) | File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 278, in | _parse_localename | raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename | ValueError: unknown locale: ml | | Thanks in advance.
If you have a question, you should say what it is. The error message seems clear to me. The known locales depend on the OS and C compiler. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list