Sorting list alphabetically

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/27/2014 6:40 AM, Kev Dwyer wrote:
> Igor Korot wrote:
>
>> Hi, ALL,
>> I need to perform a subj.
>> Looking at the Google I found following thread with explanation:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36139/how-do-i-sort-a-list-of-strings-
> in-python
>>
>> However, doing this in my python shell produces an error:
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Igor.FORDANWORK\My
>> Documents\GitHub\webapp>python Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013,
>> 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import locale
>>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>    File "c:\python27\lib\locale.py", line 547, in setlocale
>>      return _setlocale(category, locale)
>> locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
>>>>>
>>
>> What is wrong with this?
>>
>> Thank you.
>
>
> Hello Igor,
>
> Windows maintains it's own names for locales, so you need to
> supply the Windows name if you're workong on Windows.
>
> You might find these links helpful:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19709026/how-can-i-list-all-available-
> windows-locales-in-python-console

This one says to look at locale.locala_alias, but that is not helpful.

 >>> for k, v in la.items():
	if v.startswith ('en') and 'UTF' in v:
		print(k, " # ", v)
		
universal.utf8 at ucs4  #  en_US.UTF-8

But that local does not work on my machine.

 >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<pyshell#20>", line 1, in <module>
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
   File "C:\Programs\Python34\lib\locale.py", line 592, in setlocale
     return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

locale.locale_alias must not be machine limited.

> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-February/525427.html

This merely says to look at a now dead link.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy