It's a bug with PyGTK in that merely importing it sets the locale. But more seriously, it's also a bug in Numpy, in that its string formatting is dependent on locale (unlike standard floats in Python).
See this Numpy bug: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/902 * *and this mailing list thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/numpy-discuss...@scipy.org/msg14563.html Cheers, Mike Ryan May wrote: > Lionel Roubeyrie wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Trying to write to text files some plotted datas, we have a strange >> behavour on masked arrays after importing pylab, with the dot decimal >> separator replaced by a comma (but not all) : >> ############################## >> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 5 2008, 19:24:49) >> [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >> > > This has been reported before, and IIRC, it's a problem with PyGTK. > > Ryan > > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
