decimal point character

[Ben Finney]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:58:36 +0100, Bror Johansson wrote:
> Is there a way to 'configure' the built-in conversion function float() to
> accept '.' (dot) as decimalpartdelimiter when executing in an
> anglo-american-language environment and to accept ',' (comma) when executing
> in a language environment where that character is used for the same purpose?

The word you want, rather than "environment", is "locale".  The issue of
decimal point separator is one of the "locale conventions", queried via
locale.localeconv().

    >>> import locale
    >>> locale.getlocale()
    (None, None)
    >>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
    ['en_AU', 'utf']

    >>> locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']
    '.'
    >>> locale.localeconv()['mon_decimal_point']
    ''

    >>> locale.localeconv()
    {'mon_decimal_point': '', 'int_frac_digits': 127, 'p_sep_by_space':
    127, 'frac_digits': 127, 'thousands_sep': '', 'n_sign_posn': 127,
    'decimal_point': '.', 'int_curr_symbol': '', 'n_cs_precedes': 127,
    'p_sign_posn': 127, 'mon_thousands_sep': '', 'negative_sign': '',
    'currency_symbol': '', 'n_sep_by_space': 127, 'mon_grouping': [],
    'p_cs_precedes': 127, 'positive_sign': '', 'grouping': []}

Read about what each of these convention values mean:

    <http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-locale.html>

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