[New-bugs-announce] [issue3240] IDLE environment corrupts string.letters

[Roger Upole]

New submission from Roger Upole <rupole at hotmail.com>:

The problem seems to stem from this line in IOBinding.py:
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "")

>From the command prompt:
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit 
(Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import string, locale
>>> print repr(string.letters)
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "")
'English_United States.1252'
>>> print repr(string.letters)
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\x83
\x8a\x8c\x8e\x9a\x9c\x9
e\x9f\xaa\xb5\xba\xc0\xc1\xc2\xc3\xc4\xc5\xc6\xc7\xc8\xc9
\xca\xcb\xcc\xcd\xce\xc
f\xd0\xd1\xd2\xd3\xd4\xd5\xd6\xd8\xd9\xda\xdb\xdc\xdd\xde\xdf\xe0\xe1
\xe2\xe3\xe
4\xe5\xe6\xe7\xe8\xe9\xea\xeb\xec\xed\xee\xef\xf0\xf1\xf2\xf3\xf4\xf5
\xf6\xf8\xf
9\xfa\xfb\xfc\xfd\xfe\xff'
>>>

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components: IDLE
messages: 68977
nosy: rupole
severity: normal
status: open
title: IDLE environment corrupts string.letters
versions: Python 2.3, Python 2.4, Python 2.5

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