[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 331: Locale-Independent
Float/String Conversions
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jul 20 18:47:40 CEST 2004
P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> Oh cool. Since we're now setting LC_NUMERIC at the glibc level
> can we fix up locale.format. It's is very simplistic at the moment
> as it groups %s items as numbers:
> locale.format("%s",1234,1) -> '1,234'
> and treats non numbers as numbers:
> locale.format("%s\n",1234,1) -> '12,34\n'
Indeed. The second one is incorrect usage of the function.
Feel free to submit patches. However, make sure they work on all
relevant platforms.
Regards,
Martin
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