In a message of Sun, 24 May 2015 14:07:37 +0100, Mark Lawrence writes: >On 24/05/2015 13:50, Albert-Jan Roskam via Python-list wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> In Windows I can change the regional settings manually in the control panel. >> But how do I do this programmatically? I tried setting LANG but this does >> not work in Windows. >> >> Kernel32's SetLocaleInfo sounds promising, but "This setting only affects >> the user override portion of the locale settings; it does not set the system >> defaults." >> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee491893(v=winembedded.60).aspx >> >> Another route might be _winreg (but that's probably more brittle and, more >> importantly, the registry sucks) >> >> My goal is to easily run my unittests in a number of locales (actually a >> platform x locale x python version matrix) >> >> Thanks! >> >> Albert-Jan
>You're probably better off asking this on >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 which is also >available as gmane.comp.python.windows, although you might get lucky >here. If you do a rather more specific statement than "this does not >work in Windows" would be helpful. Your Python and Windows version(s) >might possibly assist as well :) > >-- >My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask >what you can do for our language. > >Mark Lawrence I actually think he will get the best advice from the testing-in-python mailing list. http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list