[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Uncaught runner exception

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Lothar Schilling writes:

 > > What do you get if in that Python you do
 > >
 > > import string
 > > lowercase

I think this should be 'string.lowercase'.

 > import string
 > 
 > lowercase
 > Traceback (most recent call last):
 >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 > NameError: name 'lowercase' is not defined

This is what I would expect.  I'm not sure why Mark got something
different (he may have previously done 'from string import *').  We
apologize for the inaccuracy.

 > string
 > <module 'string' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/string.pyc'>

It occurred to me that that you're probably in a German locale, in
which case umlauts and sharp S might be added to the string of
lowercase letters, but that doesn't seem to be the case:

$ LC_ALL=de_DE python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct  6 2017, 22:29:07) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.31)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import string
>>> string.lowercase
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
>>> len(string.lowercase)
26
>>> string
<module 'string' from '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/string.pyc'>

I added 'len(string.lowercase)' to the experiment as a quick
consistency check.  I also tried the same environment setting on Linux
with the same result, except that the module was loaded from
/usr/lib/python2.7/string.pyc and Python's version was 2.7.16rc1.  So
the locale doesn't seem to be at issue.

Regards,
Steve

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