Igor Korot wrote: > Hi, ALL, > I need to perform a subj. > Looking at the Google I found following thread with explanation: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36139/how-do-i-sort-a-list-of-strings- in-python > > However, doing this in my python shell produces an error: > > C:\Documents and Settings\Igor.FORDANWORK\My > Documents\GitHub\webapp>python Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, > 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import locale >>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "c:\python27\lib\locale.py", line 547, in setlocale > return _setlocale(category, locale) > locale.Error: unsupported locale setting >>>> > > What is wrong with this? > > Thank you.
Hello Igor, Windows maintains it's own names for locales, so you need to supply the Windows name if you're workong on Windows. You might find these links helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19709026/how-can-i-list-all-available- windows-locales-in-python-console https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-February/525427.html Cheers, Kev -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list