Re: programmatically change windows regional settings?

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In a message of Sun, 24 May 2015 14:07:37 +0100, Mark Lawrence writes:
>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

I actually think he will get the best advice from the testing-in-python
mailing list.

http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python

Laura

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Re: programmatically change windows regional settings? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-05-24 16:45 +0200

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