On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:58:33 -0500
Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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: ?????.??
I'm not sure that's how banking applications are written :)
Antoine.
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