reassign 119951 python-gnome, routeplanner-gnome retitle 119951 python-gnome: float() works incorrectly after import gnome.ui thanks
On Nov 17, Sebastian Rittau wrote: > Package: routeplanner-gnome > Version: 0.12 > Severity: important > > After starting the Gnome routeplanner frontend and trying to open > /usr/share/routeplanner/Basic-USA.rpl3.gz I get the following stack > trace on the console: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grplan > Traceback (most recent call last): [...] > File "/usr/share/routeplanner/rpcity.py", line 36, in __init__ > self.longitude = float(data[2]) > ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 0.000 > > The "Loading Cities" requester then hangs a 0%. I've done some more tracking. Here's the interesting result: $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpcli NorthAmerica.rpl3 * This works $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] grplan NorthAmerica.rpl3 * This doesn't work The reason: "from gnome.ui import *" does something nasty to the locale settings that stops float() from working. Python's float builtin (like int) is supposed to work in the C locale all of the time; even if you do locale.setlocale(LC_ALL, "") in a program, the only things that are affected are in the locale module itself. Even doing "import gnome.ui" triggers the bug. I don't know what exactly is going on, but it's probably something in python-gnome. I'm passing this along to its maintainer. (Torsten: I suspect the fix for #59713 got rolled back somewhere along the line, or something similar is going on elsewhere in the code.) Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi 208 Deupree Hall - 662-915-5765