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doko42 · doko42 · commit 82f60910b7b8 · 2010-03-15T13:46:04.000Z
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r78979 | matthias.klose | 2010-03-15 14:42:23 +0100 (Mo, 15 Mär 2010) | 3 lines - 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
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ def _findSoname_ldconfig(name):
             # XXX assuming GLIBC's ldconfig (with option -p)
             expr = r'(\S+)\s+\((%s(?:, OS ABI:[^\)]*)?)\)[^/]*(/[^\(\)\s]*lib%s\.[^\(\)\s]*)' \
                    % (abi_type, re.escape(name))
-            with contextlib.closing(os.popen('/sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null')) as f:
+            with contextlib.closing(os.popen('LANG=C /sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null')) as f:
                 data = f.read()
             res = re.search(expr, data)
             if not res:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -283,6 +283,9 @@ C-API
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
+  the locale.
+
 - The internals of the subprocess module on POSIX systems have been replaced
   by an extension module (_posixsubprocess) so that the fork()+exec() can be
   done safely without the possibility of deadlock in multithreaded applications.
