GTK breaks float! (related to "float does not parse 0.00000E+00")

[Moshe Zadka]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Mueller wrote:

> it looks like that I have the same problem. I use the pickler. When I import
> gtk/pygnome modules, the pickler can't read my pickled object (containing
> floats) anymore.
> This behaviour is new since redhat 6.2. On redhat 6.1 the same code with the
> same pickled object works without any problem. The python versions on both
> redhat 6.1/6.2 are the same. There must be a difference one of the modules.

I have a hunch this is related to locale. See if you can convince your
system that you live in the US (<wink>) -- fiddle environment variables,
etc. IF this solves the problem, please let us know.

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