Tk-Problem?

[Hans Gubitz]

/ Bernhard Herzog <herzog at online.de> wrote:
| > >>> 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.

Thanks. It helps on many problems with Tkinter and Python (on SuSE 6.1).

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Hans Gubitz
email: gubitz at netcologne.de