[Python-Dev] Re: Be Honest about LC_NUMERIC [REPOST] (original) (raw)

Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Sep 1 07:04:00 EDT 2003

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:

> This is much worse, then: How can it possibly know what formats the C > library expects in the current locale? What if the C library insists that > a thousands-separator is used when the locale has one? etc.

I'm not sure that's a realistic objection.

Ok. Are you then, overall, in favour of taking the proposed approach?

It is not thread-safe, but only so if somebody calls setlocale in a different thread, and that is known not to be thread-safe - so I could live with that limitation.

It is just that the patch does not "feel" right, given that there must be "native" locale-inaware parsing of floating point constants somewhere on each platform (atleast on those that support C++98).

Regards, Martin

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