[New-bugs-announce] [issue23739] locale.setlocale checks locale name for string incorrectly

[Saulius Žemaitaitis]

New submission from Saulius Žemaitaitis:

Steps to reproduce:

python2.7 -c "import locale; locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, u'en_US')"

Raises: ValueError: too many values to unpack

Problem lies in locale.py file from the standard library. It checks if locale is string incorrectly:

    if locale and type(locale) is not type(""):
        # convert to string
        locale = normalize(_build_localename(locale))

I think it should instead check if locale is basestring:

    locale and not isinstance(locale, basestring):
        # <..>

If above fix looks correct I'll submit it as a patch.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 238914
nosy: Saulius Žemaitaitis
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: locale.setlocale checks locale name for string incorrectly
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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