Re: programmatically change windows regional settings?

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Date	Sun, 24 May 2015 14:07:37 +0100
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On 24/05/2015 13:50, Albert-Jan Roskam via Python-list wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In Windows I can change the regional settings manually in the control panel. But how do I do this programmatically? I tried setting LANG but this does not work in Windows.
>
> Kernel32's SetLocaleInfo sounds promising, but "This setting only affects the user override portion of the locale settings; it does not set the system defaults." https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee491893(v=winembedded.60).aspx
>
> Another route might be _winreg (but that's probably more brittle and, more importantly, the registry sucks)
>
> My goal is to easily run my unittests in a number of locales (actually a platform x locale x python version matrix)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Albert-Jan
>

You're probably better off asking this on 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 which is also 
available as gmane.comp.python.windows, although you might get lucky 
here.  If you do a rather more specific statement than "this does not 
work in Windows" would be helpful.  Your Python and Windows version(s) 
might possibly assist as well :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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