Bug: (Locale) IDLE/Tkinter/Python?

[Adrian Eyre]

>> I'm not sure how well Python copes with this generally, but
>> changing my locale so that the thousands sep and decimals sep
>> (normally ',' , '.') are reversed ('.' , ',') causes a problem
>> in Tkinter, and therfore IDLE.

> Hm, that's odd.  Python is supposed to ignore the locale when you use
> atof(); the locale module exports a version of atof() that honors the
> locale after you call locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "").
Even if setlocale() was not called through the Python wrapper?

> What platform are you on?
Win32

> It seems that perhaps the Tcl version you
> are using calls setlocale() on that platform?
In the embedding code, there is a call to setlocale(LC_ALL, "") before
Py_Initialise().

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