[Thuban-commits] r2693 - trunk/thuban/test

[scm-commit@wald.intevation.org]

Author: bernhard
Date: 2006-09-15 10:49:51 +0200 (Fri, 15 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 2693

Added:
   trunk/thuban/test/localessupport.py
Log:
Adding localessupport.py, support code for setting locales.


Added: trunk/thuban/test/localessupport.py
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--- trunk/thuban/test/localessupport.py	2006-09-15 08:04:01 UTC (rev 2692)
+++ trunk/thuban/test/localessupport.py	2006-09-15 08:49:51 UTC (rev 2693)
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+# Copyright (C) 2006 by Intevation GmbH
+# Author(s):
+# Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>
+#
+# This program is free software under the GPL (>=v2)
+# Read the file COPYING coming with the software for details.
+
+"""Support code for setting locales."""
+
+__version__ = "$Revision: $"
+# $Id: xmlsupport.py 1683 2003-08-28 15:20:57Z bh $
+
+import locale
+from locale import LC_NUMERIC, getlocale, setlocale, localeconv
+
+_verbose = 0
+
+def setdecimalcommalocale():
+    """Find and set LC_NUMERIC locale that uses comma as decimal_point.
+
+    Return the previous locale to be able to set the previous LC_NUMERIC.
+    This can be "(None, None)" or None if none was found.
+    """
+
+    encodings = [".UTF-8", "@euro"]
+    locales = ["de_DE", "fr_FR", "fr_BE"]
+
+    oldlocale = getlocale(LC_NUMERIC)
+
+    tries = []
+    for l in locales:
+        for e in encodings:
+            tries.append(l + e)
+
+    for t in tries:
+        try:
+            if _verbose > 0:
+                print "trying", repr(t)
+            setlocale(LC_NUMERIC,t)
+        except locale.Error:
+            continue
+        break
+
+    # did we find one?
+    if localeconv()['decimal_point'] == ",":
+        return oldlocale
+
+    setlocale(LC_NUMERIC,oldlocale)
+    return None
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # test and print result
+    print "Searching for LC_NUMERIC locale with comma as decimal_point ..."
+    _verbose = 1
+    oldlocale = setdecimalcommalocale()
+    if oldlocale == None:
+        print "none found."
+    else:
+        print "found: ",
+        print getlocale(LC_NUMERIC)
+        setlocale(LC_NUMERIC,oldlocale)