[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-797447 ]
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "de") raises exception
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Bugs item #797447, was opened at 2003-08-29 18:16
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Peter Otten (potten)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "de") raises exception
Initial Comment:
Python 2.3 (#1, Jul 30 2003, 11:19:43)
[GCC 3.2] on linux2
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>>> import locale as lo
>>> lo.setlocale(lo.LC_ALL, 'de')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/locale.py", line 381, in
setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: locale setting not supported
The above was taken from the example section of the
locale module documentation.
But this works:
>>> lo.setlocale(lo.LC_ALL, 'de_DE')
'de_DE'
>>>
So the error message should at least be changed to
"unknown/unsupported locale" and the documentation
example updated to 'de_DE' instead of 'de'.
However, if there are no side effects, I'd prefer to
change the locale.setlocale() implementation to always
normalize() the locale:
def setlocale(category, locale=None):
if locale:
if type(locale) is not type(""):
# convert to string
locale = _build_localename(locale)
locale = normalize(locale)
return _setlocale(category, locale)
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