European Win32. Python weirdness

[A. B.]

Greetings all,

I am having problems with a module of python, mainly on Win32 platform
using European languages. In some of the code we wrote, python does not
seem to recognise a
number as a number. More specificcaly, when python reads a string of
digits, 'he' does not
recognise it as a number but as a string. This of course causes the
reste of the processing to fail!

Does anybody ever seen such a weird behavior?

Thanks a lot.