ISO name change for Türkiye

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by nerdponx on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:36AM (#32071471)

Absolutely. It's not that hard to write your own though:

    import locale
    from contextlib import contextmanager

    @contextmanager
    def use_locale(*args, **kwargs):
        locale.setlocale(*args, **kwargs)
        yield
        locale.resetlocale()

Contextlib is one of the under-appreciated gems in Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib...

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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by catskul2 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:01PM (#32074309)

> Maybe there should be a context manager?

Even despite the:

> Absolutely.

My absolute least favorite response to this is:

> It's not that hard to write your own though:

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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by nerdponx on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:23PM (#32074526)

The alternative is trying to get one merged into the standard library. At least writing your own is better than not having one!

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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by catskul2 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:03AM (#32082867)

I often see this answer as a reason it's not particularly important to have on in a standard library.

I strongly disagree with that sentiment as often these simple things have subtle gotchas, and/or subtle differences in possible net effects creating much bigger problems than their diminutive implementations would suggest.

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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by nerdponx on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:59AM (#32084518)

I generally feel the same way as you. My comment about getting it merged was not meant to imply that it shouldn't get merged, but that it might be difficult to. I find it very hard to predict which of these small QoL features will be accepted by the core devs and which features will be rejected for some reason or other.

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