[Python-Dev] LC_NUMERIC, gtk and Patch 774665 (original) (raw)

Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro gjc at inescporto.pt
Thu May 20 12:52:47 EDT 2004

A Qui, 2004-05-20 às 01:22, Nick Coghlan escreveu:

A problem was recently reported on wxPython-dev that smells strongly of this issue with GTK changing the LCNUMERIC locale to something other than 'C' causing subsequent severe problems in the handling of floats by the Python interpreter.

I went looking for Christian's proposed PEP (to make Python more locale agnostic when it comes to LCNUMERIC), and didn't find it listed in PEP 0. The last activity on Gustavo's patch was in December 2003, and the last comment in September. What's the current state of this?

AFAICT, there was interest in including this patch even without a full PEP. Christian is currently on vacation. There is a unoficial PEP draft at http://www.async.com.br/~kiko/pep-numeric.txt

I stopped working on the patch because there was nothing more to do. But I'm willing to do some more effort as necessary to include this in Python 2.4.

Best regards.

-- Gustavo João Alves Marques Carneiro <gjc at inescporto.pt> <gustavo at users.sourceforge.net> The universe is always one step beyond logic.

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