Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
> Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> 
>> An clean alternative would be adding LC_* variable parsing code to
>> Python to avoid the setlocale() call altogether.
> 
> That would be highly non-portable, and repeat the mistakes of
> getdefaultlocale.

You say that often, but I don't really know why. It's certainly portable
between various Unix platforms, perhaps not Windows, but then i18n
on Windows is a different story altogether.

BTW: For Windows, you can adjust setlocale() to work thread-based
using: _configthreadlocale()
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/26c0tb7x(v=vs.80).aspx)

Perhaps we ought to expose this in _locale and use it in
getdefaultlocal() on Windows to query the locale settings
via the pseudocode I posted.