[Straw-devel] Re: Straw 0.20 problem on Slackware 9.1

[Jan Alonzo]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 07:53, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> Here it is:
> 
> bash-2.05b$ python
> Python 2.3.1 (#1, Sep 24 2003, 16:45:45)
> [GCC 3.2.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>import locale
> >>>locale.getdefaultlocale()
> (None, None)
> >>>
> 
> Is this a Slackware bug you think? :o
> 
> thanks,
> Eugenia

locale.getdefaultlocale examines your env for these variables in order:

LANGUAGE
LC_ALL
LC_TYPE
LANG

If none of these are found, it returns None. So I guess it's not
bulletproof. Thanks a lot for the report. 

HTH

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