Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> added the comment: BoĊĦtjan, the code segment you quote is the *fallback* if the C module hasn't been built for some reason. The module simply calls through to the underlying C Library. I notice you're running on Windows, so this is a useful MS page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d%28VS.71%29.aspx and you can see there that a call of setlocale (LC_ALL, "English") is valid (of "French" if you prefer): Python 3.1.2 (r312:79149, Mar 21 2010, 00:41:52) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale (locale.LC_ALL, "French") 'French_France.1252' >>> ---------- nosy: +tim.golden _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10092> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com