You need to be able to build matplotlib from source (which implies 
having a compiler etc., which may or may not be easy on your platform).  
The basic instructions for building from source are here:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html

and the branch containing the locale fix is available for git checkout 
or download as a tarball here:

https://github.com/mdboom/matplotlib/tree/locale_formatting

Mike

On 07/29/2011 01:14 PM, José Alexandre Nalon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your work! But, since I don't have much experience
> with dealing with the sources and compiling, I don't know
> exactly how to apply this patch. Is there a guide to applying
> patches to matplotlib or something like that? Any help will
> be appreciated.
>
> ---
> José Alexandre Nalon
> na...@terra.com.br
>
>
> Em 29/07/2011, às 12:08, Michael Droettboom escreveu:
>
>> There isn't a really good way to do this at present.  Maybe someone can
>> suggest a workaround that doesn't require modifying matplotlib.
>>
>> However, I was able to produce a patch that will respect the user's
>> current locale here:
>>
>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/410
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>> On 07/28/2011 06:46 PM, José Alexandre Nalon wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Sorry if this question was answered before. I did a search in the
>>> mailing list archives but couldn't find any answer.
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to use comma as a decimal separator in texts,
>>> especially in tick labels? I know that it is possible to user
>>> formatters to do that, but I was wondering if there is an automatic
>>> setting or something that could be applied to axes instances, as I
>>> have more than 200 scripts to generate plots and I don't want to
>>> edit every one of them. Maybe there is a TeX setting (I uset
>>> usetex=True)?
>>>
>>> I tried setting locales, but it didn't work. I also tried to
>>> process the texts in the tick labels, but that didn't work also.
>>> Maybe I am overseeing something, but any hint would help.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> José Alexandre Nalon
>>> na...@terra.com.br
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