On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
..
>> For example,
>> I don't think that supporting
>>
>> >>> float('١٢٣٤.٥٦')
>> 1234.56
>>
>> is more important than to assure users that once their program
>> accepted some text as a number, they can assume that the text is
>> ASCII.
>
> Why would they assume the text is ASCII?
def deposit(self, amountstr):
self.balance += float(amountstr)
audit_log("Deposited: " + amountstr)
Auditor:
$ cat numbered-account.log
Deposited: ?????.??
...
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