"Tim Peters" <tim.one@comcast.net> wrote in message news:LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCGEOJEPAB.tim.one@comcast.net... > [Tim] > >> It would be better if Python didn't use locale-dependent > >> string<->float conversions internally, but that's just not > >> the case (yet). > > [Tony Meyer] > > Is this likely to become the case? (In 2.4, for example?) > > I think so, and maybe before that. Not in 2.3 final, but maybe in 2.3.1 -- > numeric locale problems can be catastrophic to Python programmers, so I'm > comfortable arguing the case for calling it a bugfix. Lib Manual 3.19 says clearly that the marshal format for a specific release is system independent and tranportable. It includes floats as one of the types so supported. If, as I have gathered from this thread, the format for floats is actually, under certain circumstances, whimsy-dependent, I think a warning should be added to the doc until the bug is fixed. Terry J. Reedy
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