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Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation:

OS locale support for use in Python

The following Python code works on my Windows machine (Python 2.5.4), but doesn't on my Debian machine (Python 2.5.0). I'm guessing it's OS dependent.

import locale
locale.setlocale( locale.LC_ALL, 'English_United States.1252' )

I receive the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 476, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Questions:

Upvotes: 15

Views: 16459

Answers (4)

netz75
netz75

Reputation: 57

On Ubuntu Precise type

sudo locale-gen en_US

Upvotes: 1

pippo2600
pippo2600

Reputation: 91

try

apt-get install locales-all

for me it works like a charm

Upvotes: 9

gimel
gimel

Reputation: 86354

Look inside the locale.locale_alias dictionary.

>>> import locale
>>> len(locale.locale_alias)
789
>>> locale.locale_alias.keys()[:5]
['ko_kr.euc', 'is_is', 'ja_jp.mscode', 'kw_gb@euro', 'yi_us.cp1255']
>>>

(In my 2.6.2 installation there are 789 locale names.)

Upvotes: 8

Yoann Le Touche
Yoann Le Touche

Reputation: 1300

It is OS dependent.

To get the list of local available you can use locale -a in a shell

I think the local you want is something like Windows-1252

Upvotes: 22

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