1 Sep
2003
1 Sep
'03
9:15 a.m.
James Henstridge
The existing locale handling in Python shares this property, but makes it difficult for external libraries to format and parse floats in the locale's representation. From what I can see, leaving LC_NUMERIC set to the locale value rather than "C" leads to better interoperability.
I think everybody agrees that allowing non-C LC_NUMERIC settings in the C library is very desirable. My concerns are about the specific approach taken to implement that change. Or, actually, with an entire class of approaches: namely those that involve complex algorithms (i.e. which include a for-statement :) to implement that feature. Regards, Martin