On 11/10/2014 4:22 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
Hi,
Why do I get different output for locale.getlocale() in Idle vs. cmd.exe?
# IDLE
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
import locale
locale.getdefaultlocale()
('nl_NL', 'cp1252')
locale.getlocale()
('Dutch_Netherlands', '1252') # I need this specific notation
# cmd.exe or Ipython
C:\Users\albertjan>python
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import locale
locale.getdefaultlocale()
('nl_NL', 'cp1252')
locale.getlocale()
(None, None)
# using setlocale does work (one of these instances when I answer my own
question while writing to the Python list)
C:\Users\albertjan>python
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
'Dutch_Netherlands.1252'
locale.getlocale()
('Dutch_Netherlands', '1252')
Idle runs code in an environment that is slightly altered from the
standard python startup environment'. idlelib.IOBinding has this
'''
# Try setting the locale, so that we can find out
# what encoding to use
try:
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "")
'''
idlelib.run, which runs in the user-code subprocess, imports IOBinding.
Setting LC_CTYPE is sufficient for getlocale() to not return null values.
C:\Users\Terry>python -c "import locale; print(locale.getlocale())"
(None, None)
C:\Users\Terry>python -c "import locale;
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, ''); print(locale.getlocale())"
('English_United States', '1252')
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