On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > I agree that Python should make it easy for the programmer to get > numerical values of native numeric strings, but it's not at all clear > to me that there is any point to having float() recognize them by > default.
Indeed, as someone else suggested earlier in the thread, supporting non-ASCII digits sounds more like a job for the locale module than for the builtin types. Deprecating non-ASCII support in the latter, while ensuring it is properly supported in the former sounds like a better way forward than maintaining the status quo (starting in 3.3 though, with the first beta just around the corner, we don't want to be monkeying with this in 3.2) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
