On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Victor Stinner <[email protected]> wrote: > The current locale is process-wide: if a thread changes the locale, > all threads are affected. Some functions have to use the current > locale encoding, and not the locale encoding read at startup. Examples > with C functions: strerror(), strftime(), tzname, etc.
Could a core part of Python breaking because of a sequence like: 1) Encode unicode to bytes using locale codec. 2) Silly third-party library code changes the locale codec. 3) Attempt to decode bytes back to unicode using the locale codec (which is now a different underlying codec). ? Schiavo Simon _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com