[Python-Dev] Re: Be Honest about LC_NUMERIC [REPOST]

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:

> > This is much worse, then: How can it possibly know what formats the C
> > library expects in the current locale? What if the C library insists that
> > a thousands-separator is used when the locale has one?  etc.
> 
> I'm not sure that's a realistic objection.

Ok. Are you then, overall, in favour of taking the proposed approach?

It is not thread-safe, but only so if somebody calls setlocale in a
different thread, and that is known not to be thread-safe - so I could
live with that limitation.

It is just that the patch does not "feel" right, given that there must
be "native" locale-inaware parsing of floating point constants
somewhere on each platform (atleast on those that support C++98).

Regards,
Martin