Tk-Problem?

[Bernhard Herzog]

Hans Gubitz <gubitz at netcologne.de> writes:

> I need some help. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> gubitz at pumuckl:~/python/apk > python
> Python 1.5.1 (#1, Apr  5 1999, 00:08:45)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (e on linux2

You seem to be running the Python from SuSE Linux 6.1.

> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>> float("1")
> 1.0
> >>> from Tkinter import *
> >>> root=Tk()
> >>> button=Button(root, text="Quit", command=root.destroy)
> >>> button.pack()
> >>> root.mainloop()
> >>> float("1")
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: float() literal too large: 1

I had the same problem on the same system, although this happened with
pygtk. I finally found that the culprit was the environment variable
LC_CTYPE which has the value de_DE by default on SuSE 6.1, at least on
the German version. Setting it to C should help.

It seems to me that this is really a bug in the C-library.


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