[Python-Dev] LC_NUMERIC and C libraries

[Martin v. Löwis]

Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br> writes:

> > I added the special-casing of LC_NUMERIC when I found Python can't
> > parse floating point literals in Python source code anymore, in such a
> > locale (de_DE uses the same convention). This is triggered by atof(3)
> > changing its meaning, inside compile.c:parsenumber.
> 
> Is there a good reason to prefer atof() over strtod(), if we already
> have a locale-safe version of the latter?

I don't think so - it is the same on systems where strtod is supported.
However, I think Python uses atof since strtod might not be available.

Regards,
Martin