Probleme with locale

[Alex Martelli]

"Christophe Prevost" <ommadawn at club-internet.fr> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I need locale for my re in french. And there's something strange...
>
> import locale
> this work ->
> >>>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
> >>>locale.getdefaultlocale()
> ('fr_FR', 'cp1252')
>
> this doesn't work ->
> >>>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "fr_FR")
>
> Tell me Why?

Because the string 'fr_FR' is not a valid
locale descriptor.

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "French_France.1252")

This will work.

I'm not sure what, exactly, .getdefaultlocale() is
returning -- I can't find this function in the docs...


Alex