From: Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> On 6/23/18 7:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:26:22 -0400, Richard Damon wrote: > >> If you know the Locale, then you do know what the decimal separator is, >> as that is part of what a locale defines. > A locale defines a set of common cultural conventions. It doesn't mandate > the actual conventions in use in any specific document. > > If I'm in Australia, using the en-AU locale, nevertheless I can generate > a file using , as a decimal separator. Try and stop me :-) yes, you can MIS-use the en-AU locale and write 1,000 to mean the number One, just as you can misuse the language and write cat when you mean a member of the Canine group, but then the misinterpretation is on the creator of the document, not on the program that was told how the document is to be read. > > But your point is taken -- I misread Ethan saying that he knew the locale > and it wasn't helping, when in fact he was reluctant to change the locale > as that's a process-wide global change. > >> The issue is that if you just >> know the encoding, you don't necessarily know the locale. He also >> commented that he didn't want to set the locale in the routine, as that >> sets it globally for the full application (but perhaps that latter could >> be fixed by first doing a locale.getlocale(), then setlocale for the >> files locale, and then at the end of reading and processing restore back >> the old locale. > Indeed. > >
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