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  r78980 | matthias.klose | 2010-03-15 14:46:04 +0100 (Mo, 15 Mär 2010) | 10 lines

  Merged revisions 78979 via svnmerge from
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    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.
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Lib/ctypes/util.py

@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
             # XXX assuming GLIBC's ldconfig (with option -p)
             expr = r'(\S+)\s+\((%s(?:, OS ABI:[^\)]*)?)\)[^/]*(/[^\(\)\s]*lib%s\.[^\(\)\s]*)' \
                    % (abi_type, 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:

Misc/NEWS

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
+  the locale.
+
 
 What's New in Python 3.1.2 release candidate 1?
 ===============================================