From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-12-01T05:38:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [OFF] Python 2.4 released

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 04:54:15 +0900, Edgardo Hames <ehames@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 03:37:21 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 02:35:02 +0900, Zach Dennis <zdennis@mktec.com>
> > wrote:
> > > (dont know)     10 PEP 331: Locale-Independent Float/String Conversions
> > I don't think that this is needed.
> Just wondering, aren't these conversions what allow different formats
> for float numbers? For example "3.141592654" in English, "3,141592654"
> in Spanish.

That's locale-dependent. Basically, Python's numeric output appears to
be locale-dependent in all cases, except when using these new
features.

-austin
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