29 Nov
2010
29 Nov
'10
9:19 a.m.
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:58:05 +1000
Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote: I agree that Python should make it easy for the programmer to get numerical values of native numeric strings, but it's not at all clear to me that there is any point to having float() recognize them by default.
Indeed, as someone else suggested earlier in the thread, supporting non-ASCII digits sounds more like a job for the locale module than for the builtin types.
Not sure, really. For example, "\d" in a regular expression will match all Unicode digits, unless you pass the re.ASCII flag. The C locale mechanism generally does a poor job of supporting what MS seems to call "culture-specific" characteristics. Regards Antoine.