[issue39827] setting a locale that uses comma as decimal separator breaks tkinter.DoubleVar

[E. Paine]

E. Paine <paineelisha at gmail.com> added the comment:

Is this a problem exclusive to tkinter? I ran the following code, and it appears to be an issue with the builtin 'float' method:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'de_DE.utf8')
'de_DE.utf8'
>>> float("1,2")
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '1,2'

I have somehow managed to corrupt my locales so I would appreciate if you could try on your machine as well (is it just me?!).

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nosy: +epaine

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