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-rw-r--r--Lib/ctypes/util.py2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/util.py b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
index 35b0b1e..e2a31c8 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
expr = r'(\S+)\s+\((%s(?:, OS ABI:[^\)]*)?)\)[^/]*(/[^\(\)\s]*lib%s\.[^\(\)\s]*)' \
% (abi_type, re.escape(name))
res = re.search(expr,
- os.popen('/sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null').read())
+ os.popen('LANG=C /sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null').read())
if not res:
return None
return res.group(1)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e514456..b0c5901 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
+ the locale.
+
What's New in Python 2.6.5?
===========================