[issue25742] locale.setlocale does not work with unicode strings

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 27.11.2015 23:50, STINNER Victor wrote:
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> STINNER Victor added the comment:
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>> BTW: Why did you use (_str, _unicode) instead of basestring ?
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> Serhiy usually insists that technically, it's possible to compile Python 2.7 without Unicode support. I don't believe that anyone uses this crazy feature, but well, it was easier to use _unicode (which is already defined) than trying to run a poll on python users :-)

Hmm, but basestring is always defined, even when Python is compiled
without Unicode support (which I agree is not used much these
days). unicode won't exist in such a Python version, so basestring
is actually safer to use than the tuple.

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