International characters and Python's string functions on Linux

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Alexander Staubo wrote:
> > import locale
> > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
> > 
> Good idea, but:
> 
> Python 1.5.2 (#9, Jul  2 1999, 04:33:02)  [GCC 2.8.1] on linux2
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>> import locale
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/locale.py", line 4, in ?
>     from _locale import *
> ImportError: No module named _locale
> >>> 
> 
> This is Slackware Linux 2.2/libc6. Should I configure Python with some 
> kind of magic parameter for the locale stuff to work?

   Just recompile python and enable _locale module (or compile _locale
yourself).

> -- 
> Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
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Oleg.
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