[Python-Dev] locale and LC_NUMERIC (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 10:12:31 CET 2006


On 1/8/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Georg Brandl wrote: > >>> import locale > >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LCNUMERIC, "") > 'deDE at euro' > >>> u"%f" % 1.0 > u'1,000000' > > Is this intended? This breaks testformat on my box when testbuiltin (method > testfloatwithcomma) is executed first.

No. %-formatting should always use the C locale. One should use locale.format to get locale-aware formatting.

http://python.org/sf/1400181 fixes this problem I hope.

n



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