time.strptime() fails with non-UTF8 locales, *even when the input is
totally ASCII*.
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, "fr_FR.ISO8859-15")
'fr_FR.ISO8859-15'
>>> time.strptime("2009-01-01", "%Y-%m-%d")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 461, in
_strptime_time
return _strptime(data_string, format)[0]
File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 307, in _strptime
_TimeRE_cache = TimeRE()
File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 188, in __init__
self.locale_time = LocaleTime()
File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 72, in __init__
self.__calc_month()
File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 98, in
__calc_month
a_month = [calendar.month_abbr[i].lower() for i in range(13)]
File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/_strptime.py", line 98, in <listcomp>
a_month = [calendar.month_abbr[i].lower() for i in range(13)]
File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/calendar.py", line 60, in __getitem__
return funcs(self.format)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3:
invalid data