---- My sample interactive session (locale.setlocale and all) was on a 32-bit Vista install of Python 2.5, so it works on that...
--- Rami Chowdhury "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure". -- Segal's Law 408-597-7068 (US) / 07875-841-046 (UK) / 0189-245544 (BD) On Monday 17 August 2009 19:46:24 Ben Finney wrote: > Jonathan Gardner <jgard...@jonathangardner.net> writes: > > On Aug 17, 5:20 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > > Instead, you should generate the map based on the standard library (in > > > this case, the underlying C standard library) locale database > > > <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html?highlight=locale%20date > > >#lo...>: > > > > Does Windows support POSIX locales? > > If it does not, it should :-) since it addresses the problem in one > standard place. It would be foolish for Python to re-implement that > functionality when presumably the operating system already knows how to > map between dates and locale-specific text representations. > > You'll need to check the operating system documentation for what > alternative it might provide. > > -- > \ “I got fired from my job the other day. They said my | > `\ personality was weird. … That's okay, I have four more.” | > _o__) —Bug-Eyed Earl, _Red Meat_ | > Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
