bpo-46659: calendar uses locale.getlocale()

Doc/library/calendar.rst

@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ interpreted as prescribed by the ISO 8601 standard.  Year 0 is 1 BC, year -1 is
 .. note::
 
    The :meth:`formatweekday` and :meth:`formatmonthname` methods of these two
-   classes temporarily change the current locale to the given *locale*.  Because
+   classes temporarily change the ``LC_TIME`` locale to the given *locale*.  Because
    the current locale is a process-wide setting, they are not thread-safe.
 
 

Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst

@@ -589,6 +589,12 @@ Changes in the Python API
   of sorting simply isn't well-defined in the absence of a total ordering
   on list elements.
 
+* :mod:`calendar`: The :class:`calendar.LocaleTextCalendar` and
+  :class:`calendar.LocaleHTMLCalendar` classes now use
+  :func:`locale.getlocale`, instead of using :func:`locale.getdefaultlocale`,
+  if no locale is specified.
+  (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`46659`.)
+
 
 Build Changes
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Lib/calendar.py

@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ class LocaleTextCalendar(TextCalendar):
     def __init__(self, firstweekday=0, locale=None):
         TextCalendar.__init__(self, firstweekday)
         if locale is None:
-            locale = _locale.getdefaultlocale()
+            locale = _locale.getlocale()
         self.locale = locale
 
     def formatweekday(self, day, width):
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ class LocaleHTMLCalendar(HTMLCalendar):
     def __init__(self, firstweekday=0, locale=None):
         HTMLCalendar.__init__(self, firstweekday)
         if locale is None:
-            locale = _locale.getdefaultlocale()
+            locale = _locale.getlocale()
         self.locale = locale
 
     def formatweekday(self, day):

Lib/test/test_calendar.py

@@ -859,7 +859,8 @@ def test_option_locale(self):
         self.assertFailure('-L')
         self.assertFailure('--locale')
         self.assertFailure('-L', 'en')
-        lang, enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
+
+        lang, enc = locale.getlocale()
         lang = lang or 'C'
         enc = enc or 'UTF-8'
         try:

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-02-06-19-13-02.bpo-46659.q-vNL9.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+The :class:`calendar.LocaleTextCalendar` and
+:class:`calendar.LocaleHTMLCalendar` classes now use :func:`locale.getlocale`,
+instead of using :func:`locale.getdefaultlocale`, if no locale is specified.
+Patch by Victor Stinner.