[issue3067] setlocale error message is confusing

2011-06-20 Thread vincent.chute 

vincent.chute  added the comment:

"Since the module predates unicode strings (it is in 1.5) and since the locale 
string is passed to a C function, 'string' in the doc can just as well be taken 
to mean ascii byte string only, as the code requires."

My only comment is that generally it doesn't seem reasonable to me that 
developer should need to investigate the history and implementation of a 
function in order to understand the documentation correctly.

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[issue3067] setlocale Tracebacks on unicode locale strings

2008-06-09 Thread vincent.chute 

New submission from vincent.chute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

import locale
locale.setlocale( locale.LC_ALL, u'ja_JP.utf8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 475, in setlocale
locale = normalize(_build_localename(locale))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 383, in _build_localename
language, encoding = localetuple
ValueError: too many values to unpack

The problem is line 473:
if locale and type(locale) is not type(""):

Replacing this with
 if locale and not isinstance(locale, basestring):
fixes the problem.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 67861
nosy: vincent.chute
severity: normal
status: open
title: setlocale Tracebacks on unicode locale strings
versions: Python 2.5

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[issue3067] setlocale Tracebacks on unicode locale strings

2008-06-09 Thread vincent.chute 

vincent.chute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:

I have confirmed this exists on trunk

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/locale.py?rev=63824&view=markup

(63824 is the latest)
where the line in question is now 475

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