[Pythonmac-SIG] How badly is _locale broken?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 29, 2004, at 6:06 AM, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> writes:
>
>> Alternatively, we could just punt on the issue and say "you need to
>> use 10.X in order to have a working locale module", where 10.X is the
>> version that Apple fixes CF.  X is obviously greater than 3, but I
>> don't think it will be much greater.  It's been broken for this long,
>> and Brett C. said he doesn't use the locale module, so it may be too
>> much effort for too little reward.
>
> It would be nice if the unit tests stop failing, though.

So skip them and disable (or at least throw up a warning that says 
those locale functions don't actually work) the module if not using 
10.X or later.

-bob