Setting my Locale

[Robert Rawlins]

Good morning Guys,

 

I'm running python 2.5 on a Debian based system and I'm looking for your
advice on how to set the locale for my application. I've read through the
locale module documentation http://docs.python.org/lib/module-locale.html
and tried a couple of the examples but can't seem to get it working.

 

For instance, when I attempt to run the following code:

 

import locale

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE')

 

I get an exception raised by the application which says:

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "locale_test.py", line 2, in <module>

    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE')

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 478, in setlocale

    return _setlocale(category, locale)

locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

 

My questions are; what would be causing this error? Do I need any additional
packages installed on the system for this locale support to work properly?
How can I get a list of available locales?

 

Many thanks for any advice guys,

 

Robert

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