Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <[email protected]> added the comment:
Most of this is much too loud for a newbie who is about to read PEP 7 anyway.
And if this community has chosen to try (?!?) not to break compatibility with
code which does not have a notion of a locale setting (i.e. naively uses other
code in that spirit), you know, then this is simply the way it is. Thus:
you're right. I do agree with what you say, we here have a (8-bit) C++ library
which does this in it's setup():
// Initialize those Locale variables we're responsible for
Locale::_ctype_cclass = Locale::_posix_cclass;
Locale::_ctype_ccase = Locale::_posix_ccase;
(Like i said: we here went completely grazy and avoid system libraries whenever
possible and at least directly, doing the stuff ourselfs and only with
syscalls.)
Besides that i would agree with me that unthreaded init, optional embeddor
locale argument, cleanup of .getprefer...() and other drops of setlocale()
are/would be good design decisions. And of course: "keeping the thing simple
and understandable" is a thing to keep in mind in respect to a normal user.
After the end (i have to excuse myself once again for a book):
I, f.e., opened an issue 11059 on saturday because the HG repo was (2.7 may
still be) not cloneable, and i did so at selenic, too. Notes on that:
- pitrou closed it because this tracker is of course for Python bugs. (I
asked him to decide - thanks.)
- The selenic people told me that i added my trace to a completely wrong issue.
(Just searched - that's more than shown in trace dump.)
- I've found out that many, *many* issues seem to have been created due to this
repo failure at python.org (at selenic), and i've added a note that they
possibly should include a prominent notice that people should look for "most
recent call last" before creating a new one. (I guess that most of these
people are programmers - who else uses HG?)
- Conclusion: maybe even os.environ[]= == locale.setlocale() is not simple
minded enough.
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