From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:55:09 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: #19855: restore use of LC_ALL, not LC_MESSAGES
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.8~111
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b8e18af0e52d45a933655a6e211e3c708245f999;p=python

#19855: restore use of LC_ALL, not LC_MESSAGES

I didn't realize LC_ALL was an override, and I should have.  I tried to
make a test, but it is not clear that the LC variables actually affect
the strings that uuid is using to parse the command output.
---

diff --git a/Lib/uuid.py b/Lib/uuid.py
index 2a70ce69dd..63cb3aed28 100644
--- a/Lib/uuid.py
+++ b/Lib/uuid.py
@@ -305,9 +305,9 @@ def _find_mac(command, args, hw_identifiers, get_index):
         return None
 
     try:
-        # LC_MESSAGES to get English output, 2>/dev/null to
+        # LC_ALL to ensure English output, 2>/dev/null to
         # prevent output on stderr
-        cmd = 'LC_MESSAGES=C %s %s 2>/dev/null' % (executable, args)
+        cmd = 'LC_ALL=C %s %s 2>/dev/null' % (executable, args)
         with os.popen(cmd) as pipe:
             for line in pipe:
                 words = line.lower().split()