usefullness of pythons' builtin locale functions on Windows

[Gerhard Haering]

In article <3d50ba69.89612046 at News.CIS.DFN.DE>, Gerson Kurz wrote:
> The documentation for strftime in the module time says
> 
> %x Locale's appropriate date representation.   
> %X Locale's appropriate time representation. 
> 
> I run W2k, with a german locale selected. (Which works in nearly all
> other programs I run). I'm using 
> 
> PythonWin 2.2.1 (#34, Apr 15 2002, 09:51:39) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
> win32.
> 
> So, I tried this:
> 
>>>> import time
>>>> time.strftime( "%x %X" )
> '08/07/02 08:15:37'
> 
> The date format is incorrect for german users, it uses MM/DD/YY where
> we would normally write DD.MM.YYYY. So, I look at module "locale"
> 
>>>> import locale
>>>> locale.setlocale( locale.LC_ALL, "de" )
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>   File "C:\Python22\lib\locale.py", line 372, in setlocale
>     return _setlocale(category, locale)
> Error: locale setting not supported

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "GERMAN")
'German_Germany.1252'
>>> time.strftime("%x %X")
'07.08.2002 08:26:47'
>>>

I only know that specific "GERMAN" locale - I don't have any idea on where to
get a list of valid locales for Windows.

Gerhard
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