Bugs item #1276437, was opened at 2005-08-30 18:16
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: oswaldo (oswaldohm)
Assigned to: Facundo Batista (facundobatista)
Summary: error converting locale number to decimal
Initial Comment:
Hello,
When I try con convert a locale formated number to
decimal y generate an error:
>>> import locale
>>> import decimal
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "sp")
'Spanish_Spain.1252'
>>> n = locale.format("%f", 123456.78, 1)
>>> n
'123.456,780000'
>>> d = decimal.Decimal(n)
File "<console>", line 1, in ?
File "C:\Python24\Lib\decimal.py", line 571, in __new__
self._sign, self._int, self._exp =
context._raise_error(ConversionSyntax)
File "C:\Python24\Lib\decimal.py", line 2266, in
_raise_error
raise error, explanation
''' decimal.InvalidOperation : '''
>>>
Thanks
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Comment By: George Yoshida (quiver)
Date: 2005-08-30 19:48
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I guess this is because '123.456,780000' does not conform to
the decimal numeric string syntax :
decimal-part ::= digits '.' [digits] | ['.'] digits
see : http://docs.python.org/lib/node177.html
It does not seem to be a bug to me.
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