[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:23:22 +1100
Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> 
> But I think there is a good case for allowing the constructors int, 
> float and complex to continue to accept numeric *strings* with non-ASCII 
>   digits. The code already exists, there's probably people out there who 
> rely on it, and in the absence of any convincing demonstration that the 
> existing behaviour is causing widespread difficulty, we should leave 
> well-enough alone.

+1

> It seems to me that there's no need to move this functionality into locale.

Not only, but moving it into locale won't make it easier to maintain
anyway.

Regards

Antoine.