Cann't get locale data from IDLE on macOS

[roomONmoon]

When trying to execute code from IDLE, I can't get the system locale data on macOS

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import os ret = os.popen('locale') ret.read().split() ['LANG=', 'LC_COLLATE="C"', 'LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"', 'LC_MESSAGES="C"', 'LC_MONETARY="C"', 'LC_NUMERIC="C"', 'LC_TIME="C"', 'LC_ALL=']

But If I'll use bash, I get it

Output:
Air:~ admin$ python3
Python 3.7.9 (default, Jan  3 2021, 01:35:12) 
[Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> ret = os.popen('locale')
>>> ret.read().split()
['LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"', 'LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"', 'LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"', 'LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"', 'LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"', 'LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"', 'LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"', 'LC_ALL=']
>>>

Why is this happening and how could I get the locales?

[deanhystad]

That is the information for the current locale. Maybe you want output from local -a?

[roomONmoon]

That is the information for the current locale. Maybe you want output from local -a?

Yes, I need the current locale.

[roomONmoon]

I need to know about the language of the system in order to automatically set the language in my application, but I can't get this data on macOS, for unknown reasons.

[deanhystad]

I don't understand. Those are the settings for the current locale. You are in Russia and you are using UTF8 encoding. What do you want the output to look like? Is the problem that you don't know what the locale codes mean?

Have you looked at using the Python locale module?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/locale.html

[roomONmoon]

I don't understand. Those are the settings for the current locale. You are in Russia and you are using UTF8 encoding. What do you want the output to look like? Is the problem that you don't know what the locale codes mean?

Have you looked at using the Python locale module?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/locale.html

Okay, this is simple example with locale module: (If you have a macOS, you can repeat it)

1. Open IDLE of python3.10+
2. Past the code

1 2	from locale import getlocale print(getlocale())

3. Try to execute (you'll see empy output locale data)

[deanhystad]

What version of OS? What version of Python?

[roomONmoon]

What version of OS? What version of Python?

macOS Monterey, Python 3.12.3