Re: programmatically change windows regional settings?

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Date	Sun, 24 May 2015 07:16:20 -0700
From	Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
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On Sun, May 24, 2015 3:07 PM CEST Mark Lawrence wrote:

>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.  

Ok, I'll check that out, thanks. Hope that list is about more than win32com

If you do a rather more specific statement than "this does not 
>work in Windows" would be helpful. 

One can set LANG in Windows (of course), but Windows does not appear to ever use it. So it's pointless.
setx LANG France.French.1252 && python -c "from locale import *; setlocale(LC_ALL, ''); print(getlocale())" 

... Does not print a French locale on my non-French system 

>Your Python and Windows version(s) 
>might possibly assist as well :)


Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64), and preferably also Win 7 x64. Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, and ideally also pypy.


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