Berthold Höllmann (bhoel at starship.python.net) schrieb: >>>> import locale >>>> locale.setlocale (locale.LC_ALL,"") >'de_DE' >>>> testDate('LANG', 'de_DE') >LANG : de_DE Montag März >>>> I will try this workaround. But I still wonder why Python ignores my environment settings?! +++hartmut