On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:58:05 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Not sure, really. For example, "\d" in a regular expression will match all Unicode digits, unless you pass the re.ASCII flag. The C locale mechanism generally does a poor job of supporting what MS seems to call "culture-specific" characteristics. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
