[Python-Dev] Idea: emulating _locale

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:25:08PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >...
> > Peter Funk wrote:
> >...
> > > > + ### C lib locale APIs
> > > > +
> > > > + from _locale import *
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it be clever to provide some dummy stubs on those platforms, where
> > > the _locale module was not enabled?
> > >
> > > try:
> > >     from _locale import *
> > > except:
> > >     def setlocale(....
> > >     def localeconv(....
> > >     ...
> > >
> > > Especially the MacOS 1.5.2 release provided by Jack Jansen was
> > > compiled without '_locale'.  And at least in Python 1.6a2 '_locale'
> > > is still disabled per default in 'Modules/Setup.in'.  I didn't had
> > > a look into the current CVS though, so this may have changed.
> > >
> > > I think the name aliasing tables might be also useful on those
> > > systems lacking locale support in their C-library.
> >
> > setlocale and localeconv are ANSI C and Python requires an ANSI C
> > compiler, so there should be no problem (at least in theory).
> >
> > If there is a problem, adding the missing symbols would
> > be no problem: the APIs could always report locale 'C'
> > and its numeric settings.
> 
> An ANSI C compiler and the ANSI C library are very different. Just because
> Python requires an ANSI compiler (or close to it), does NOT mean that we can
> or should depend upon particular elements in the library.

Well, ok, it's POSIX.1 too, but...
 
> IMO, we should follow Peter's advice and have stubs for the platforms where
> _locale is not built.

...ok, since it doesn't hurt, I'll add some dummies to locale.py
which return the same thing as the 'C' locale.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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