On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, haiyang kang <corn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> But you should be able to write: >> >> text = input("Enter a number using your preferred digits: ") >> num = float(text) >> >> without caring whether the user enters 一.一 or 1.1 or something else. > > yes. from logical point of view, this can happen. ...
Please stop discussing a non-feature. Python's float *does not* accept ' 一.一'. This was reported as a bug and closed as invalid. See "makeunicodedata.py does not support Unihan digit data" http://bugs.python.org/issue10575 _______________________________________________ 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