Message 154495 - Python tracker

Message154495

Author	skrah
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Date	2012-02-27.17:33:13
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Message-id	<1330363994.24.0.841585589979.issue14142@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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This came up in #14113. getlocale(LC_ALL) is documented to fail, at least that's how I read this: "category may be one of the LC_* values except LC_ALL." But in fact getlocale(LC_ALL) works if there is no semicolon in the locale name: >>> getlocale(LC_ALL) ('en_US', 'ISO8859-1') I would prefer if getlocale(LC_ALL) fails consistently. If that's not possible, then this is a documentation issue.

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This came up in #14113. getlocale(LC_ALL) is documented to fail, at
least that's how I read this:

   "category may be one of the LC_* values except LC_ALL."


But in fact getlocale(LC_ALL) works if there is no semicolon in the
locale name:

>>> getlocale(LC_ALL)
('en_US', 'ISO8859-1')


I would prefer if getlocale(LC_ALL) fails consistently. If that's
not possible, then this is a documentation issue.

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