[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
..
>> For example,
>> I don't think that supporting
>>
>> >>> float('١٢٣٤.٥٦')
>> 1234.56
>>
>> is more important than to assure users that once their program
>> accepted some text as a number, they can assume that the text is
>> ASCII.
>
> Why would they assume the text is ASCII?

def deposit(self, amountstr):
      self.balance += float(amountstr)
      audit_log("Deposited: " + amountstr)

Auditor:

$ cat numbered-account.log
Deposited: ?????.??
...