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

[Michael Hudson]

jepler.lnk at lnk.ispi.net (jepler epler) writes:

> On 06 Jun 2000 16:32:40 +0100, Michael Hudson
>  <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >My money's on so bizzarre interaction with libc, myself.
> 
> I'm guessing that 'import gnome.ui' sets the locale, including the
> numeric format:
> 	$ env LC_NUMERIC=en_US python -c 'import gnome.ui; print float("1.1")'
> 	1.1
> 	$ env LC_NUMERIC=de_DE python -c 'import gnome.ui; print float("1.1")'
> 	Traceback (innermost last):
> 	  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> 	Value Error: invalid literal for float(): 1.1

$ env LC_NUMERIC=de_DE python -c 'import gnome.ui; print float("1.1")'

Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed!
1.1

Versions?

Cheers,
M.

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