[Python-Dev] logging module broken because of locale

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
> To follow up on my own email: it looks like, even though in some locale
> "INFO".lower() != "info"
> 
> u"INFO".lower() == "info" (at least in the Turkish locale).
> 
> Is that guaranteed, at least for now (for the current versions of python)?

It's guaranteed for now; unicode.lower is not locale-aware.

Regards,
Martin