[issue25742] locale.setlocale does not work with unicode strings

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 28.11.2015 00:00, STINNER Victor wrote:
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> STINNER Victor added the comment:
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> Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:
>> Hmm, but basestring is always defined, even when Python is compiled
>> without Unicode support (...)
> 
> Oh, I didn't know. Well, I already pushed my patch and it works. Feel
> free to modify locale.py to use basestring. I'm not interested to
> spend time on this *minor* issue anymore ;-)

No big deal. There are probably lots more places in the stdlib which
break without Unicode compiled in... :-)

> Thanks for the review.by the way.

Thanks for the patch.

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