[ python-Bugs-1391872 ] floating point literals don't work in non-US locale in 2.5

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Bugs item #1391872, was opened at 2005-12-28 12:01
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Status: Open
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Priority: 7
Submitted By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: floating point literals don't work in non-US locale in 2.5

Initial Comment:
According to reports on comp.lang.python, the current 
SVN trunk fails to handle floating point literals if 
the locale is changed:

>>> import locale 
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') 
'German_Germany.1252' 
>>> 3.141592 
3.0 

This works just fine in 2.4.2.

See the later portions of the thread "build 
curiosities of svn head (on WinXP)" for more details:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_
frm/thread/226584dd47047bb6/e609cb1a0d47e98f

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