[Python-Dev] locale and LC_NUMERIC
Georg Brandl
g.brandl-nospam at gmx.net
Mon Jan 9 20:17:31 CET 2006
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>> >>> import locale
>> >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, "")
>> 'de_DE at euro'
>> >>> "%f" % 1.0
>> '1.000000'
>> >>> 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.
While we're at it: test_builtin does
import locale
orig_locale = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, '')
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'fr_FR')
and later
finally:
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, orig_locale)
Shouldn't the first setlocale have no second argument?
regards,
Georg
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