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| author | Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org> | 2011-11-05 08:18:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org> | 2011-11-05 08:18:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 416ecffcc49941a39ec3109eb20ae9ce558326ea (patch) | |
| tree | 8e596a0880c41d66ac21866064114f5139f2d8c1 /Lib/locale.py | |
| parent | 49aa72ed4c48fb613893388b470aa5b5464c1952 (diff) | |
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Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of locale.setlocale()
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py index ae667a8..561e9e4 100644 --- a/Lib/locale.py +++ b/Lib/locale.py @@ -524,9 +524,10 @@ def getlocale(category=LC_CTYPE): def setlocale(category, locale=None): """ Set the locale for the given category. The locale can be - a string, a locale tuple (language code, encoding), or None. + a string, an iterable of two strings (language code and encoding), + or None. - Locale tuples are converted to strings the locale aliasing + Iterables are converted to strings using the locale aliasing engine. Locale strings are passed directly to the C lib. category may be given as one of the LC_* values. |