locale on cygwin

[Andy Todd]

Oleg Broytmann wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:31:43PM +1100, Andy Todd wrote:
> 
>> >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/locale.py", line 374, in setlocale
>>     return _setlocale(category, locale)
>>locale.Error: locale setting not supported
>> >>>
>>angua:/home/andy47# echo $LANG
>>en_AU
>>angua:/home/andy47#
>>
> 
>    On lInux this means your system lacks files for en_AU locale. It is not
> Python fault. Use different locale, en_EN or any that exists on the system.
> 
> Oleg.
> 

Thanks for that, but this is what happens if I don't force it;

"""
$ echo $LANG
C
$ python
Python 2.1.1+ (#1, Jan  8 2002, 00:37:12)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import locale
 >>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line1, in ?
   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/locale.py", line 339, in getdefaultlocale
     return _parse_localename(localename)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/locale.py", line 272, in _parse_localename
     raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale:
"""

Regards,
Andy
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