Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment: Antoine Pitrou wrote: > The problem seems to be that the thousands separator on the Solaris > variant of en_US is an empty string (rather than a comma) (*), and > apparently it hits a bug in the padding mechanism (which perhaps assumes > that the thousands separator is always a 1-character string). > > (*) (another reason not to use any C locale-based mechanism for > localization, by the way...)
I've come to believe this, too. I'm working on cleaning up the C implementations so I can do all of the locale-based formating without using the locale functions. I'll use the localeconv values, but that's it. ---------- title: locale.format bug if thousand separator is space (french separator as example) -> locale.format bug if thousand separator is space (french separator as example) _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1222> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
