Following up on shell(locale) problem

[Mike Bonner]

Well if you can figure out how to get locale to work from an lc shell, there
are interesting things that can be done in that vein using python.

If LANG is set to en_GB, and locale is actually working, you can feed it to
a python script such as this

#!/usr/bin/python
import locale -- for locale stuff of course
import sys -- so we can get argv
tVal = float(sys.argv[1]) -- sets argv[1] type to float and puts in tval
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ' ' ) -- assuming all is perfect *cough*
grabs the locale
tOut = locale.currency(tVal,1,1,0)

 -- puts out the number with adjustements. tVal is passed number, next is
whether to show or not show the symbol, next is grouping on or off, next is
use international symbol, or not. So, if LANG is set to en_GB you get back
the great brit symbol, groups of 3, seperated by comma with a "." decimal.

As you say though, not sure it'ts worth the effort, can just ask the user.

If you're curious, I got this info from
http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at mollysrevenge.com>wrote:

> Thanks Mike.  'Fraid the command you gave me still returns the incorrect
> info when executed with the LC shell command.
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> In answer to your other email, I'm trying to get this info so I can format
> numbers and currency in my application according to the user's preferences,
> rather than having the user specify the same preferences to my application.
>  But it's quickly becoming more trouble than it's worth!
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> On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
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> > Ok, while this doesn't solve the issue, if you do
> >
> > shell("LANG=en_US.UTF-8;locale -k LC_NUMERIC")
> >
> > You get back the correct info yes?
> >
> > The problem here is that (I think someone said this farther up) the
> process
> > shell uses isn't the same as a full blown terminal start. If you have a
> > .bash_profile file in your user directory, and you do
> >
> > shell("source ~/.bash_profile ; locale -k LC_MONETARY") does it work?
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at mollysrevenge.com
> >wrote:
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> >> OK, In terminal, that returns "LANG=en_US.UTF-8".  With the LC shell
> >> command, it returns nothing!!  There's definitely something weird going
> on
> >> with the LC shell command.
> >>
> >> Pete Haworth
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> >> On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd still be curious to know if
> >>> env; |grep LANG
> >>>
> >>> returns the same environment variable value both from LC shell, and
> from
> >>> terminal
> >>
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