[New-bugs-announce] [issue44387] Not obvious that locale.LC_MESSAGES may not exist sometimes (e.g. on Windows)

[Richard Mines]

New submission from Richard Mines <richardmines91 at gmail.com>:

Documentation page:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/locale.html#locale.LC_MESSAGES

Code comment saying that locale.LC_MESSAGES doesn't exist sometimes:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/62f1d2b3d7dda99598d053e10b785c463fdcf591/Lib/locale.py#L25-L26

Code fragment showing that locale.LC_MESSAGES can be non-existent:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/62f1d2b3d7dda99598d053e10b785c463fdcf591/Lib/locale.py#L1747-L1752

Reading documentation it's not obvious that locale.LC_MESSAGES may not exist (e.g. Windows - Microsoft Store - Python 3.8)

----------
assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 395588
nosy: docs at python, richardmines91
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Not obvious that locale.LC_MESSAGES may not exist sometimes (e.g. on Windows)
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue44387>
_______________________________________