[Python-Dev] Failure of test__locale common on OS X?

[Steven Majewski]

tkFileDialog also fails when run as a main module:

% pythonw tkFileDialog.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "tkFileDialog.py", line 189, in ?
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'')
   File  
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
     return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: locale setting not supported


All the functions seem to work ok when imported. The problem is the  
following
in the 'if __name__ == "__main__" : ' clause:

     # See whether CODESET is defined
     try:
         import locale
         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'')
         enc = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET)
     except (ImportError, AttributeError):
         pass


The tail end of the OSX setlocale man page reads:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
---------------------------------
STANDARDS
      The setlocale() and localeconv() functions conform to ISO/IEC  
9899:1990
      (``ISO C89'').

HISTORY
      The setlocale() and localeconv() functions first appeared in  
4.4BSD.

BUGS
      The current implementation supports only the "C" and "POSIX"  
locales for
      all but the LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, and LC_TIME categories.

      In spite of the gnarly currency support in localeconv(), the  
standards
      don't include any functions for generalized currency formatting.

      Use of LC_MONETARY could lead to misleading results until we have  
a real
      time currency conversion function.  LC_NUMERIC and LC_TIME are  
personal
      choices and should not be wrapped up with the other categories.

BSD                              June 9, 1993                            
    BSD
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
--------------------------------

In fact, setlocale( LC_ALL, "POSIX" ) and setlocale( LC_ALL, "C" ) both  
work.
( Some other things also don't work, but I'm not sure exactly what  
things should work. )

-- Steve Majewski