Malcolm Greene pisze: > The locale module provides the ability to format dates, currency and > numbers according to a specific locale. > > Is there a corresponding module for parsing locale's output to convert > locale formatted dates, currency, and numbers back to their native data > types on the basis of a specified locale? > > In other words, a module that will reverse the outputs of locale on a > locale specific basis.
There are some attempts in Babel (http://babel.edgewall.org/), but the devs themselves claim the routines are incomplete. You might want to check it, though. -- Jarek Zgoda http://zgodowie.org/ "We read Knuth so you don't have to" - Tim Peters -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list