[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[Steven D'Aprano]

haiyang kang wrote:
> hi,
> 
>   I agree with this.
> 
>   I never seen any man in China using chinese number literals (at
> least two kinds:一, 壹, same meaning with 1)
>   in Python program, except UI output.
> 
>   They can do some mappings when want to output these non-ascii numbers.
>   Example: if 1: print "一"
> 
>   I think it is a little ugly to have code like this: num =
> float("一.一"), expected result is: num = 1.1

I don't expect that anyone would sensibly write code like that, except 
for testing. You wouldn't write num = float("1.1") instead of just
num = 1.1 either.

But you should be able to write:

text = input("Enter a number using your preferred digits: ")
num = float(text)

without caring whether the user enters 一.一 or 1.1 or something else.


-- 
Steven