[New-bugs-announce] [issue5905] strptime fails in non-UTF locale

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Sat May 2 17:17:21 CEST 2009


New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

time.strptime() fails with non-UTF8 locales, *even when the input is
totally ASCII*.

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, "fr_FR.ISO8859-15")
'fr_FR.ISO8859-15'
>>> time.strptime("2009-01-01", "%Y-%m-%d")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 461, in
_strptime_time
    return _strptime(data_string, format)[0]
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 307, in _strptime
    _TimeRE_cache = TimeRE()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 188, in __init__
    self.locale_time = LocaleTime()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 72, in __init__
    self.__calc_month()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 98, in
__calc_month
    a_month = [calendar.month_abbr[i].lower() for i in range(13)]
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 98, in <listcomp>
    a_month = [calendar.month_abbr[i].lower() for i in range(13)]
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/calendar.py", line 60, in __getitem__
    return funcs(self.format)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3:
invalid data

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 86953
nosy: pitrou
priority: critical
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: strptime fails in non-UTF locale
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0, Python 3.1

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