[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: MacPython2.3 - locale problem in Idle

[Andre Posumentov]

Hi Ronald,

That's what's puzzling me  - I'm in the UK, and my 'LANG' environment  
is set to 'en'.  Sorry, I should have mentioned that in my original  
mail.

Not 'unsupported', surely?

Cheers,
-- Andre

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 07:27  pm, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, 6 August, 2003, at 18:48, Andre Posumentov wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On a clean install of Jack's latest MacPython 2.3, together with  
>> everything listed in the Package Manager, on OS X 10.2.6:
>>
>> I encounter a problem starting Idle.  The Dock icon bounces a couple  
>> of times and then silently dies.
>>
>> If I start Idle from the command line (inside 'IDLE.app/Contents'), I  
>> see the following:
>>
>> %% ./MacOS/IDLE
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "Resources/__argvemulator_idle", line 4, in ?
>>     execfile(os.path.join(os.path.split(__file__)[0], "idle"))
>>   File "Resources/idle", line 4, in ?
>>     import idlelib.PyShell
>>   File  
>> "/Applications/MacPython-2.3/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlelib/ 
>> PyShell.py", line 22, in ?
>>     from EditorWindow import EditorWindow, fixwordbreaks
>>   File  
>> "/Applications/MacPython-2.3/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlelib/ 
>> EditorWindow.py", line 39, in ?
>>     class EditorWindow:
>>   File  
>> "/Applications/MacPython-2.3/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlelib/ 
>> EditorWindow.py", line 43, in EditorWindow
>>     from IOBinding import IOBinding
>>   File  
>> "/Applications/MacPython-2.3/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlelib/ 
>> IOBinding.py", line 31, in ?
>>     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "")
>>   File  
>> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
>> locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
>>     return _setlocale(category, locale)
>> locale.Error: locale setting not supported
>>
>> Can anyone tell me whether this is likely to be a problem with my  
>> machine configuration, or a bug?  The fact that I seem to be the only  
>> person reporting this would seem to indicate that it's the former -  
>> but I'm baffled as to the possible cause.   I'd be eternally grateful  
>> for any insights.
>
> What is your language setting? I can reproduce this problem if I set  
> the environment variable LANG to an unsupported value.
>
> Ronald
>
>