[New-bugs-announce] [issue14142] getlocale(LC_ALL) behavior

[Stefan Krah]

New submission from Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet at bytereef.org>:

This came up in #14113. getlocale(LC_ALL) is documented to fail, at
least that's how I read this:

   "category may be one of the LC_* values except LC_ALL."


But in fact getlocale(LC_ALL) works if there is no semicolon in the
locale name:

>>> getlocale(LC_ALL)
('en_US', 'ISO8859-1')


I would prefer if getlocale(LC_ALL) fails consistently. If that's
not possible, then this is a documentation issue.

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messages: 154495
nosy: skrah
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: getlocale(LC_ALL) behavior
versions: Python 3.3

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