[issue36945] Add _PyPreConfig.configure_locale: allow to leave LC_CTYPE unchanged when embedding Python
STINNER Victor
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Fri May 17 12:48:49 EDT 2019
STINNER Victor <vstinner at redhat.com> added the comment:
Steve:
> Imagine you're an existing application and you want to embed Python. Why would you ever want it to suddenly change your global settings like this?
I have a very good news for you :-) Slowly but steadily, we converge on a agreement ;-)
The more time I spend on PEP 587, the more I think that the following use cases are too different and "incompatible":
* customized Python interpreter: behaves as the "regular Python"
* Embedded Python
I drafted "Isolate Python" in my PEP 587. With subtle options like configure_c_stdio, parse_argv and now configure_locale, it seems like we really need two *separated* these two configurations.
I implemented exactly that in PR 13388, I added 2 functions:
* _PyCoreConfig_InitPythonConfig(): provide a default configuration which parses command line arguments, enable UTF-8 Mode depending on the locale, read global configuration variables, read environment variables, etc.
* _PyCoreConfig_InitIsolateConfig(): isolated from the system, ignore command line arguments, ignore global configuration variables, leave the LC_CTYPE locale and C streams unchanged, etc.
I'm working on an update of my PEP to better describe that.
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So I understand that this option is needed and you should prefer to turn it off by default in _PyCoreConfig_InitIsolateConfig.
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