Georg Brandl wrote: > 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? Oops, right - it certainly should. Martin