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

Mon Sep 1 02:34:36 EDT 2003

> 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).

FWIW, I have the same feeling, but the idea of having to support
our own version of such code is even more uncomfortable.

Maybe at least we can detect platforms for which we know there is a
native conversion in the library, and not use the hack on those?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)