This may be relevant to the problems you're seeing:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=774665&group_id=5470The short story, as the tracker item paints it, is that setting LC_NUMERIC to anything other than 'C' can give results like the ones you describe---Python itself should never do this, but third parties code may. A web search for python LC_NUMERIC should turn up more about this topic, probably even some past threads on this mailing list/newsgroup. Jeff
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