[New-bugs-announce] [issue39084] string.letters is flipped after setlocale is called

[Manish]

New submission from Manish <manishsmail at gmail.com>:

Steps to reproduce:

>>> import string
>>> string.letters
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
>>> help(string)
......
>>> string.letters
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'


The help(string) can also be replaced with locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8")

What's happening here is that any call to setlocale() (which help() calls internally) recomputes string.letters. The recomputation flips the order in the current implementation.

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messages: 358604
nosy: Manishearth
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: string.letters is flipped after setlocale is called
versions: Python 2.7

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