Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >>> However it appears from your bug ticket that you have a much narrower >>> problem (case-shifting a small known list of English words like VOID) >>> and can work around it by writing your own locale-independent casing >>> functions. Do you still need to find out whether Python unicode >>> casings are locale-dependent? >> I would still like to know. There are other places where .lower() is used in >> numpy, not to mention the rest of my code. > > "lower" uses the informative case mappings provided by the Unicode > character database; see > > http://www.unicode.org/Public/4.1.0/ucd/UCD.html > > afaik, changing the locale has no influence whatsoever on Python's > Unicode subsystem.
Even if towlower() gets used? I've found an explicit statement that the conversion it does can be locale-specific: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8h19t214.aspx Thanks, Fredrik. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
