What is wxPython doing to the locale to makes pandas crash?

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#21

Robin,

This won’t work in linux:

        lang, enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
        self._initial_locale = wx.Locale(lang, lang[:2], lang)
        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, lang)

locale.setlocale would raise

locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

What would work is:

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, (lang, enc))

Of course, this does not work in windows, so you might want to try one, and if a locale.Error is raised try the other.

Is there a bug report for this issue somewhere?

#22

it works in my code following this :

In main page I have :
(self.locale = wx.Locale(wx.LANGUAGE_ENGLISH) for example)

      elif langue == "english" :
          self.locale = wx.Locale(wx.LANGUAGE_ENGLISH)
          presLan = gettext.translation("en", "./locale", languages=['en'])
          self.langage_utilisateur = "english"
          langue_par_defaut = "en_GB"
      elif langue == "french" :
          self.locale = wx.Locale(wx.LANGUAGE_FRENCH)
          presLan = gettext.translation("fr", "./locale", languages=['fr'])
          self.langage_utilisateur = "francais"
          langue_par_defaut = "fr_FR"
      elif langue == "spanish" :
          self.locale = wx.Locale(wx.LANGUAGE_SPANISH)
          presLan  = gettext.translation("es", "./locale", languages=['es'])
          self.langage_utilisateur = "espanol"
          langue_par_defaut = "es_ES"
presLan.install()

and before a call who used to crash in windows (strptime for example) :
(locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ‘en’) for example)

            if ( parent.parent.systeme_version == "WINDOWS" ) :
                if ( parent.parent.langage_utilisateur == "english" ) :
                    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en')
                if ( parent.parent.langage_utilisateur == "francais" ) :
                    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'fr')
                if ( parent.parent.langage_utilisateur == "espanol" ) :
                    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'es')
                    
            date_formate_en_float = date2num(datetime.datetime.strptime(date_heure_formatee, '%Y%m%d%H%M'))

Hope it will be usefull, not clean method for sure …

#23 
    class MyApp(wx.App):
        def InitLocale(self):
            self.ResetLocale()

This works for me!

OS Windows 10, wxpython 4.1.0 and python 3.8.3

Thanks you!

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#25

Install wxPython version 4.0.7 and it works great

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#26

Yep, this works for me as well.

#27

I just pip installed the wxPython 4.1 and I still see the bug. I’m using python 3.8.6 on windows 10 (update 2004). I was able to get around the problem by using:
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ‘en’)

But I’m that is not the best solution. Also adding the self.ResteLocale() did not work?
Johnf

#28

After lot of code updates, just reverting back to 4.0.7 worked.

This seems the best & clean option, until issue fixed in 4.1.x

#29

Windows 10, python 3.7.9, pandas 1.1.4, wxPython 4.1.0

pip install -U wxPython==4.1.1

This works for me!

#30

I had a very similar locale problem, although not (apparently) due to a conflict with pandas. Of all the proffered solutions (and thanks very much to everyone), the only one that fixed it for me was downgrading to wxPython-4.0.7.post2.

Quite happy to blame Bill Gates for this one, regardless of whether it’s his fault.

Windows 10, Python 3.8.

#31

Out of interest, the problem is NOT present for me with wxPython 4.1.0.