Parsing locale specific dates, currency, numbers

[Jarek Zgoda]

Malcolm Greene pisze:
> The locale module provides the ability to format dates, currency and
> numbers according to a specific locale.
> 
> Is there a corresponding module for parsing locale's output to convert
> locale formatted dates, currency, and numbers back to their native data
> types on the basis of a specified locale?
> 
> In other words, a module that will reverse the outputs of locale on a
> locale specific basis.

There are some attempts in Babel (http://babel.edgewall.org/), but the
devs themselves claim the routines are incomplete. You might want to
check it, though.

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