_locale.so still failing in r13 about python-for-android HOT 5 CLOSED

Ohh dear... well we will have to work on this a bit more. Unfortunately Bionic 
(Android's version of libc) explicit says it doesn't support locales. Either we 
port from another library localeconv and all the locale pieces, or we need to 
do monkey patching.

Ok in the mean time there's a workaround you can try, it's a bit hacky but 
works, see the attached file. You should do this before calling strptime, doing 
it once is enough.

Of course your patch works in this instance, but since there is no locale 
support in libc and since the locale.py module already has emulation code for 
use in these circumstances, why not just stop including _locale.so?

I read somewhere that Google suggests using ICU if locale support is really 
necessary.

isn't _locale.so needed for optparse and others to work?

If _locale.so is removed, then the fallback code in locale.py appears to work 
fine.  Both optparse and strptime work without it.

Fixed in python release _r15
Removed _locale.so from release, as android doesn't support anyway. Module 
falls back to sensible defaults without it.