Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 03:04:03PM +0100, Andreas Voegele wrote:
> > Probably LC_NUMERIC should be set to "C" in gtkmodule.c after calling
> > gtk_set_locale():
>
> This only hides the problem. I will investigate.
I've got a similar problem:
herzog:~>LANG=de_DE python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Nov 13 1999, 12:17:58) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- on
linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import gtk
>>> 2.5
2.0
>>> float("2.5")
Traceback (innermost last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 2.5
>>>
In fact this seems to be the same problem, since .5 is compiled as 0 and
>>> 4*exp(0)/sqrt(2.0)
2.82842712475
This is on a SuSE 6.3 system. Since python normally uses libc's strtod
to convert strings to numbers, this may be a bug in libc. On my system
that's libc-2.1.2.
Setting LC_CTYPE to C "solves" it.
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