Eric Smith wrote: > 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.
Yes, but to be fair: I think that the page actually refers to the use of the Arabic numeral format in China, rather than with their own script symbols. >> Note that float() can also parse integers, it just returns them as >> floats :-) > > :) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 02 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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
