someone recently broke floating point literals in a rather spectacular way:
$ export LANG=sv_SE.utf8 $ ./python Python 2.5a0 (41806M, Dec 25 2005, 12:12:29) Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 3.14 3.1400000000000001 >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") 'sv_SE.utf8' >>> 3.14 3.0 more here: http://www.python.org/sf/1391872 </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
