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Title: questionable results from IDLE, Windows, & several built-in
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Components: Windows Versions: Python 2.5
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Assigned To: Nosy List: bavantgarde314, josiahcarlson (2)
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Created on 2007-04-15 08:28 by bavantgarde314, last changed 2007-04-21 07:36 by bavantgarde314.

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msg31793 - (view) Author: bavantgarde314 (bavantgarde314) Date: 2007-04-15 08:28 
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

Windows(ME)


Attachment reveals questionable results from IDLE, Windows, & several built-in functions.
        
Under IDLE: function swapcase() updates 120 characters.
Under Windows (dos-screen) or a Windows ide swapcase() updates only 52 characters: ord values 65-90 for (uppercase)A-Z and 97-122 for (lowercase)a-z.
                   
Under IDLE: functions lower() & upper() return different results than swapcase()
for hex values:  8a,  8c,  8e,  9a,  9c,  9e,  9f, ff  
 or ord values  138, 140, 142, 154, 156, 158, 159, 255
 or characters   Š    Å’    Ž    š    Å“    ž    Ÿ    ÿ
msg31794 - (view) Author: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson) Date: 2007-04-19 05:02 
The behaviors of those functions depend on the locale.

Check the results of:

import locale
locale.getlocale()
msg31795 - (view) Author: bavantgarde314 (bavantgarde314) Date: 2007-04-21 07:33 
Thanks

import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')

solved my problems.
msg31796 - (view) Author: bavantgarde314 (bavantgarde314) Date: 2007-04-21 07:36 
Thanks

import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')

solved my problems.
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