locale.getlocale() strange behaviour

[Benoît Dejean]

here are my locales
benoit@athlon >> locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8

(full utf-8 system)

python2.3 -c 'import locale; print locale.getlocale()' (None, None)

python2.2 -c 'import locale; print locale.getlocale()' (None, None)
python2.3 Python 2.3.3 (#2, Feb 24 2004, 09:29:20)
[GCC 3.3.3 (Debian)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import locale
locale.getlocale() (None, None)

python2.2

Python 2.2.3+ (#1, Feb 25 2004, 23:29:31)
[GCC 3.3.3 (Debian)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. import locale
locale.getlocale()

['fr_FR', 'utf']
2.3 fails getting locale
but 2.2 also fails when running inline :/

makes me crazy :D

[Jeff Epler]

Just as in C programs, the LANG and LC_* environment variables have no
effect until setlocale is called with "" as the second argument.

On my system:
$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
$ python -c 'import locale; print locale.getlocale()'
(None, None)
$ python -c 'import locale; locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ""); print locale.getlocale()'
['en_US', 'utf']

In Python2.2 on my system, setlocale() is called by rl_initialize() when
I run the interactive interpreter.
$ python -c 'import locale; import readline; print locale.getlocale()'
['en_US', 'utf']
this may explain the behavior you noticed.

Jeff

[Benoît Dejean]

Le Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:09:26 -0600, Jeff Epler a écrit*:

In Python2.2 on my system, setlocale() is called by rl_initialize() when
I run the interactive interpreter.
$ python -c 'import locale; import readline; print locale.getlocale()'
['en_US', 'utf']
this may explain the behavior you noticed.

thanks a lot