[New-bugs-announce] [issue11830] "import decimal" fails in Turkish locale

[Dave Malcolm]

New submission from Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com>:

For Python 2 (here with 2.7.1):
$ python -c 'import locale; locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "tr_TR.UTF-8"); import decimal'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/decimal.py", line 3715, in <module>
    val = globals()[globalname]
KeyError: 'ROUND_CEiLiNG'

The issue is that 'round_ceiling'.upper() is 'ROUND_CEiLiNG' in the Turkish locale, rather than 'ROUND_CEILING', as one might expect.

A workaround for this may be to convert the str instances to unicode
first, then call upper on them, then convert back to str.

This would work since upper() for a unicode instance is locale-independent as
per issue 1528802.
(though there seems to have been some debate there).

Patch attached, though it doesn't yet contain a test case.

Only affects Python 2; with Python 3, the symbols are already stored as unicode internally.

Reported downstream as:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694928
which has links to various other reports on this

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components: Library (Lib)
files: decimal.py.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 133550
nosy: dmalcolm
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: "import decimal" fails in Turkish locale
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21622/decimal.py.patch

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