Quoting James Henstridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> when you import gtk, setlocale is called (it is required for use with
> Asian languages). I guess your locale doesn't use the dot for decimal
> points. To force the use of normal C number formats, set the environment
> variable LC_NUMERIC to C:
> export LC_NUMERIC=C
>
> This will tell the any locale aware code to use normal C conventions for
> parsing numeric values, while still letting messages from programs get
> translated.
Sorry, it even breaks like this:
> echo $LANG
> python
Python 1.5.2b2 (#9, Feb 23 1999, 13:40:58) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> float('0')
0.0
>>> import gtk
>>> float('0')
Traceback (innermost last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: float() literal too large: 0
>>> float('0.0')
Traceback (innermost last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: float() literal too large: 0.0
>>> float('0,0')
Traceback (innermost last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 0,0
>>>
So I suspect there is more to it than meets the eye :-/
> LANG=C python
Python 1.5.2b2 (#9, Feb 23 1999, 13:40:58) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import gtk
>>> float('0')
Traceback (innermost last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: float() literal too large: 0
this also doesn't work.
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