On 12/2/2010 5:43 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Eric Smith wrote:
The current behavior should go nowhere; it is not useful. Something very
similar to the current behavior (but done correctly) should go into the
locale module.
I agree with everything Martin says here. I think the basic premise is:
you won't find strings "in the wild" that use non-ASCII digits but do
use the ASCII dot as a decimal point. And that's what float() is looking
for. (And that doesn't even begin to address what it expects for an
exponent 'e'.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark
"In China, comma and space are used to mark digit groups because dot is used as
decimal mark."
Is that an ASCII dot? That page doesn't say.
Note that float() can also parse integers, it just returns them as
floats :-)
:)
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