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Thu Dec 29 19:48:38 CET 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/059289.html

Not the first time this happened. :-(

Could someone add a unit test for this please?

--Guido

On 12/28/05, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> someone recently broke floating point literals in a rather spectacular
> way:
>
> $ export LANG=sv_SE.utf8
> $ ./python
> Python 2.5a0 (41806M, Dec 25 2005, 12:12:29)
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> 3.14
> 3.1400000000000001
> >>> import locale
> >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
> 'sv_SE.utf8'
> >>> 3.14
> 3.0
>
> more here:
>
> http://www.python.org/sf/1391872
>
> </F>
>
>
>
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[Python-Dev] floating point literals don't work in non-US locale in 2.5