Ambiguous locale.strxfrm

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 22 May 2009 06:32:40 -0300, Tuomas Vesterinen  
<tuomas.vesterinen at iki.fi> escribió:

> This was fixed once in Python 2.5, but in Python 3.0 the bug celebrates  
> its comeback. The tail of the strxfrm result is ambiguous.
>
> Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Apr 14 2009, 14:30:31)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import locale
>  >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE, 'en_US.utf8')
> 'en_US.utf8'
>  >>> key1=locale.strxfrm('maupassant guy')
>  >>>> for i in range(10):
> ...     print(locale.strxfrm('maupassant guy')==key1)
> ...
> False
> True
> False
> False
> False
> False
> False
> False
> False
> False

I could not reproduce the issue on Windows (I don't have any locale using  
utf8) but you should file a bug report at http://bugs.python.org/


-- 
Gabriel Genellina