[issue3067] setlocale fails with unicode strings on Py2 and with byte strings on Py3

[Ezio Melotti]

Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> added the comment:

FWIW the type("") is gone in Py3, now it is:
"if locale and not isinstance(locale, _builtin_str):"
where "from builtins import str as _builtin_str"
(http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/py3k/Lib/locale.py?view=markup)

However Py3.0 now raises the same error when the second arg is a byte
string:
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, b'ja_JP.utf8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Programs\Python30\lib\locale.py", line 500, in setlocale
    locale = normalize(_build_localename(locale))
  File "C:\Programs\Python30\lib\locale.py", line 408, in _build_localename
    language, encoding = localetuple
ValueError: too many values to unpack

On Py3, locale.setlocale() should allow only unicode strings and reject
byte strings.

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components: +Unicode
nosy: +ezio.melotti
title: setlocale Tracebacks on unicode locale strings -> setlocale fails with unicode strings on Py2 and with byte strings on Py3
versions: +Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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