[Python-Dev] locale and LC_NUMERIC

[Neal Norwitz]

On 1/8/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
> >  >>> import locale
> >  >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, "")
> > 'de_DE at euro'
> >  >>> u"%f" % 1.0
> > u'1,000000'
> >
> > Is this intended? This breaks test_format on my box when test_builtin (method
> > test_float_with_comma) is executed first.
>
> No. %-formatting should always use the C locale. One should use
> locale.format to get locale-aware formatting.

http://python.org/sf/1400181 fixes this problem I hope.

n