Ambiguous locale.strxfrm

Tuomas Vesterinen tuomas.vesterinen at iki.fi
Fri May 22 05:32:40 EDT 2009


This was fixed once in Python 2.5, but in Python 3.0 the bug celebrates 
its comeback. The tail of the strxfrm result is ambiguous.

Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Apr 14 2009, 14:30:31)
[GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2
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 >>> import locale
 >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE, 'en_US.utf8')
'en_US.utf8'
 >>> key1=locale.strxfrm('maupassant guy')
 >>>> for i in range(10):
...     print(locale.strxfrm('maupassant guy')==key1)
...
False
True
False
False
False
False
False
False
False
False

Tuomas Vesterinen



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