[ python-Bugs-883604 ] locale specific problem in test_strftime.py

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Bugs item #883604, was opened at 2004-01-24 22:21
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: George Yoshida (quiver)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: locale specific problem in test_strftime.py

Initial Comment:
test/test_strftime.py compares an expectation and a 
result by regular expressions, but the pattern isn't 
escaped. So if the expectation includes a metacharacter,
  expectation == result
and
  re.match(expectation, result)
do not always return the same value.

In my case on Japanese Windows, time.tzname returns
  ('\x93\x8c\x8b\x9e (\x95W\x8f\x80\x8e\x9e)', '\x93
\x8c\x8b\x9e (\x95W\x8f\x80\x8e\x9e)')
The output contains parentheses. 
This resuls in a message:
  Conflict for nonstandard '%Z' format (time zone name):
    Expected “Œ‹ž (•W€Žž), but got “Œ‹ž (•W€Žž)
re.match(foo, bar) != (foo == bar)

One workaround I can think of is changing re.match(e
[1], result) back to result == e[1].


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