On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: .. >> For example, >> I don't think that supporting >> >> >>> float('١٢٣٤.٥٦') >> 1234.56 >> >> is more important than to assure users that once their program >> accepted some text as a number, they can assume that the text is >> ASCII. > > Why would they assume the text is ASCII?
def deposit(self, amountstr): self.balance += float(amountstr) audit_log("Deposited: " + amountstr) Auditor: $ cat numbered-account.log Deposited: ?????.?? ... _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com