[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 21:58:33 CET 2010


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: ..

For example, I don't think that supporting

>>> float('١٢٣٤.٥٦') 1234.56 is more important than to assure users that once their program accepted some text as a number, they can assume that the text is ASCII. Why would they assume the text is ASCII?

def deposit(self, amountstr): self.balance += float(amountstr) audit_log("Deposited: " + amountstr)

Auditor:

$ cat numbered-account.log Deposited: ?????.?? ...



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