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babel.lists.format_list with style="unit" errors on non-English languages #1098
Description
Overview Description
babel.lists.format_list does not work with non-English locales, when style is set to "unit".
Steps to Reproduce
Install latest babel 2.15.0
from babel.lists import format_list
print(format_list([1, 2, 3, 4], style="unit", locale="zh_CN"))Actual Results
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<eval command - snippet #20>", line 4, in func
print(format_list([1, 2, 3, 4], style="unit", locale="zh_CN"))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/ubuntu/redenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/babel/lists.py", line 89, in format_list
result = patterns['start'].format(lst[0], lst[1])
~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/ubuntu/redenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/babel/localedata.py", line 234, in __getitem__
orig = val = self._data[key]
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
KeyError: 'start'
Expected Results
Something like 1, 2, 3, 4 but locale dependent of course!
Reproducibility
I can reproduce this in every non-Engilsh language I've tried, es_ES zh_CN fr_FR
Various EN locales en_GB en_US en_CN produce the expected result 1, 2, 3, 4
Additional Information
Similar to #781 but this error occurs with supported styleunit and has a wider language scope
Activity
akx commented on Jul 11, 2024
The given locale doesn't have the data required to format these patterns.
zh only has unit-short patterns, not unit:
https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/45/summary/zh.html#28f7e602f689c61b
See the spec for a discussion of the various list types.
akx commented on Jul 11, 2024
... on second thought, we should then be getting the ValueError for a missing pattern family...
akx commented on Jul 11, 2024
Ah yeah, this is a bona fide bug – it's actually #1076 :)