From: Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:42:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: - Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
X-Git-Tag: v2.7b1~349
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=358e7ff36b60ee933fbd913a8da9a9b55f8a90c9;p=python

- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
  the locale.
---

diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/util.py b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
index 8f6e3384db..adde30798c 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
         def _findLib_ldconfig(name):
             # XXX assuming GLIBC's ldconfig (with option -p)
             expr = r'/[^\(\)\s]*lib%s\.[^\(\)\s]*' % re.escape(name)
-            f = os.popen('/sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null')
+            f = os.popen('LANG=C /sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null')
             try:
                 data = f.read()
             finally:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7c357a1f1b..20959bbce1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
+  the locale.
+
 - Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been
   set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
   program name.