Package: python2.4 Version: 2.4.4-1 Severity: normal
Hello, if I interpret correctly http://docs.python.org/lib/node746.html the characters 'é', 'ç' and so on should be members of string.lowercase when the locale is set on a french one. But as you can see here this is not the case: % python Python 2.4.4 (#2, Oct 20 2006, 00:23:25) [GCC 4.1.2 20061015 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-16.1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') 'LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_TIME=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_NAME=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_ADDRESS=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_TELEPHONE=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_BE.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_BE.UTF-8' >>> import string >>> string.lowercase 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' I also tried to import string before the setlocale call or before the import locale call but it did not work either. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7 Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages python2.4 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-8 Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [ ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-2 GNU readline and history libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8c-4 SSL shared libraries ii mime-support 3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii python2.4-minimal 2.4.4-1 A minimal subset of the Python lan python2.4 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
