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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-04-15 13:15:56 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-04-15 13:15:56 (GMT)
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In order to make this test work on Windows, the test locale has to be
set to 'en' there -- Windows does not understand the 'en_US' locale. The test succeeds there.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_locale.py')
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_locale.py9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_locale.py b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
index 4fb042a..91646ee 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_locale.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
from test_support import verbose
import locale
+import sys
oldlocale = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC)
+tloc = "en_US"
+if sys.platform[:3] == "win":
+ tloc = "en"
+
try:
- locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, "en_US")
+ locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, tloc)
except locale.Error:
- raise ImportError, "test locale en_US not supported"
+ raise ImportError, "test locale %s not supported" % tloc
def testformat(formatstr, value, grouping = 0, output=None):
if verbose: