New submission from Peter Stahl: Yesterday, I opened a question on Stackoverflow that explains my problem in detail. Please read this page first:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14287051/german-number-separators-using-format-language-on-osx A short summary: I'm on OSX 10.8.2. I wanted to format numbers according to the German numbering convention using Python's format language and the locale setting "de_DE". Actually, the following should work to achieve that: >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE') >>> '{0:n}'.format(1234.56) The result of the last expressions should be 1.234,56. However, my result is 1234,56. More examples are on Stackoverflow. According to what other SO members have found out, this is a problem with the locale settings of OSX because the grouping of numbers is not fully part of the locale "de_DE". On Windows, however, grouping works fine using the locale "deu_deu" which is not available on OSX. Is this a bug? At least, it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere and is probably not the correct behavior even on OSX. Others have reported similar problems on OSX as well. Do you have a quick solution for this issue? Thanks in advance. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 179785 nosy: Peter.Stahl priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: German number separators not working using format language and locale "de_DE" type: behavior versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16944> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
