[Python-Dev] Dealing with test__locale failure on OS X before a3

[Brett C.]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Brett C. wrote:
> 
>> Personally I would like to turn off the test on OS X for now and then 
>> try to see if there is a proper way to solve this.
> 
> 
> In what way does that help? The test shows that the locale module is
> broken on OS X. So the only sensible options are to remove the module
> (or atleast the relevant functions), or to fix them.

I have an idea for detecting a broken setlocale.  When configure.in does 
its compiling does it compile with the same flags that the Makefile 
uses for compiling?  If it does we can test for something we know will 
be different (fr_FR has a different decimal point, for instance) and 
compare them and then have a value in pyconfig.h to signal that a busted 
setlocale exists.  setlocale can then raise locale.Error automatically 
for platforms that have that macro defined.  But the test has to be 
compiled with the ``-framework CoreFoundation`` option or else this 
won't work.

The reason I don't want to do a blanket ``#ifdef __APPLE__`` solution is 
because I don't know if this was an issue in OS X 10.2 or earlier 
(http://www.hmug.org/man/3/setlocale.html seems to suggest setlocale was 
deprecated which means it may have still worked).

-Brett