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

Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Sep 4 19:17:34 EDT 2003

James Henstridge <james at daa.com.au> writes:

In case it is of any help, I put together a modified version of the glib code that uses libpython support routines instead of glib support routines at: http://www.gnome.org/~james/python-float-convert.c

This is indeed helpful. I like it much more than the code that is on SF; in particular, the elimination of the table is a good thing.

It might help people review the code, as it doesn't contain code irrelevant to the discussion. The code could probably be shortened by removing support for hexadecimal float representation in asciistrtod().

I would encourage that. There are other format characters that are not supported either, like the POSIX ' flag. Having limitations in that approach is fine - they just need to be documented.

Regards, Martin

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