tkFileDialog and locale under Linux

[Matthias Huening]

Hi,

I have problems using tkFileDialog under Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 in my case, but
other Linuxes seem to show the same behaviour).

The following works fine:

import tkFileDialog
f = tkFileDialog.as kopenfilename()

No problem, I can chose a filename.

But when switching the locale (in my case to German) like this:

import locale
locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , '')

the file dialog won't work anymore. The traceback is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1406, in __call__
return self.func(*args )
File "TextSTAT.p yw", line 701, in datei_hinzu
dateinamen = tkFileDialog.as kopenfilename(i nitialdir=cfg['FileDir'],
filetypes= (('All', '*.*'),('Text', '*.txt'),('HTML ', '*.htm*'),('MS Word',
'*.doc'),('MS Word 2007', '*.docx'),('Ope nOffice 1.x',
'*.sxw'),('Open Office 2.x', '*.odt')), multiple=1)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/tkFileDialog.py ", line 125, in
askopenfilename
return Open(**options) .show()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/tkCommonDialog. py", line 48, in show
s = w.tk.call(self. command, *w._options(sel f.options))
TclError: expected floating-point number but got "0.0"
Switching back to the C-locale solves the problem:
locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , 'C')

tkFileDialog will work again.

Any ideas?

Best, Matthias