[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython2.3 - locale problem in Idle

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Wednesday, 6 August, 2003, at 18:48, Andre Posumentov wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On a clean install of Jack's latest MacPython 2.3, together with  
> everything listed in the Package Manager, on OS X 10.2.6:
>
> I encounter a problem starting Idle.  The Dock icon bounces a couple  
> of times and then silently dies.
>
> If I start Idle from the command line (inside 'IDLE.app/Contents'), I  
> see the following:
>
> %% ./MacOS/IDLE
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "Resources/__argvemulator_idle", line 4, in ?
>     execfile(os.path.join(os.path.split(__file__)[0], "idle"))
>   File "Resources/idle", line 4, in ?
>     import idlelib.PyShell
>   File  
> "/Applications/MacPython-2.3/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlelib/ 
> PyShell.py", line 22, in ?
>     from EditorWindow import EditorWindow, fixwordbreaks
>   File  
> "/Applications/MacPython-2.3/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlelib/ 
> EditorWindow.py", line 39, in ?
>     class EditorWindow:
>   File  
> "/Applications/MacPython-2.3/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlelib/ 
> EditorWindow.py", line 43, in EditorWindow
>     from IOBinding import IOBinding
>   File  
> "/Applications/MacPython-2.3/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlelib/ 
> IOBinding.py", line 31, in ?
>     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "")
>   File  
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
> locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
>     return _setlocale(category, locale)
> locale.Error: locale setting not supported
>
> Can anyone tell me whether this is likely to be a problem with my  
> machine configuration, or a bug?  The fact that I seem to be the only  
> person reporting this would seem to indicate that it's the former -  
> but I'm baffled as to the possible cause.   I'd be eternally grateful  
> for any insights.

What is your language setting? I can reproduce this problem if I set  
the environment variable LANG to an unsupported value.

Ronald