translating foreign data

[Ethan Furman]

On 06/21/2018 12:07 PM, codewizard at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 1:08:35 PM UTC-4, Ethan Furman wrote:

>> I need to translate numeric data in a string format into a binary format.  I know there are at least two different
>> methods of representing parts less that 1, such as "10.5" and "10,5".  The data is encoded using code pages, and can
>> vary depending on the file being read (so I can't rely on current locale settings).
>>
>> I'm sure this is a solved problem, but I'm not finding those solutions.  Any pointers?
>
> Try this StackOverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17815252

--> import locale
--> a = u'545,545.2222'
--> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
'en_US.UTF-8'

The problem there is it sets the locale for the entire process -- I just need the conversion step for individual pieces 
of data without modifying the user's settings.

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~Ethan~