On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:26:22 -0400, Richard Damon wrote: > If you know the Locale, then you do know what the decimal separator is, > as that is part of what a locale defines.
A locale defines a set of common cultural conventions. It doesn't mandate the actual conventions in use in any specific document. If I'm in Australia, using the en-AU locale, nevertheless I can generate a file using , as a decimal separator. Try and stop me :-) But your point is taken -- I misread Ethan saying that he knew the locale and it wasn't helping, when in fact he was reluctant to change the locale as that's a process-wide global change. > The issue is that if you just > know the encoding, you don't necessarily know the locale. He also > commented that he didn't want to set the locale in the routine, as that > sets it globally for the full application (but perhaps that latter could > be fixed by first doing a locale.getlocale(), then setlocale for the > files locale, and then at the end of reading and processing restore back > the old locale. Indeed. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
