[Pythonmac-SIG] How badly is _locale broken?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 28-dec-04, at 23:11, Brett C. wrote:

> I am planning to attempt to fix the _locale module (which 'locale' 
> itself imports and uses) for OS X.  As of this exact moment I am 
> planning just fixing localeconv (thanks to CFNumberFormatter and 
> setlocale still at least storing the supposed locale, even if it does 
> ignore it), but I realized other stuff might be broken.
>
> Since I never personally use the module, does anyone know the extent 
> of the breakage?  Obviously I would rather just have to fix localeconv 
> and keep my life simple, but if it is more extensive I can see what I 
> can do.

Not linking with the CoreServices and Foundation frameworks would do 
the trick. That might cause problems elsewhere though :-(.

Ronald