Strange behaviour of floating point constants in imported modules

[Jeff Epler]

This may be relevant to the problems you're seeing:
    https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=774665&group_id=5470

The short story, as the tracker item paints it, is that setting
LC_NUMERIC to anything other than 'C' can give results like the ones you
describe---Python itself should never do this, but third parties code
may.

A web search for python LC_NUMERIC should turn up more about this topic,
probably even some past threads on this mailing list/newsgroup.

Jeff
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