[Tutor] Even More Converter!

[Rolando Pereira]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> 
> If that is important you might need to investigate a locale specific 
> way of defining the seperator. I know Windows has hooks to get 
> it from the local settings but I'm not sure about *nix and I don't 
> know if Python has a generic way.
> 
> This might not matter to you in practice , but I thought I'd 
> mention it just in case...
> 

There is always the shell command "locale".

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import subprocess

output = subprocess.Popen("locale | grep NUMERIC", shell=True, \
                                stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
print output.communicate()[0]

LC_NUMERIC="pt_PT.UTF-8" (In my case)

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The problem with this is that it assumes the default shell is properly
  setted up (which may not be the case, for example this output happens
in Bash, but in ZSH it gives en_US.UTF-8), which may not be the case.

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