[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: [...] >>I really wouldn't want it to become possible to write Python code in one >>locale that had to be edited before the numeric literals were valid in >>another locale. That way madness lies. > > That is the fact, from the very beginning. 1.234 striaightly speaking > can have different meaning,. So if you don't want, don't support it and > always use the non-European notation. >
Being European myself I am well aware of the notational differences of the different locales, and I am perfectly happy that users can enter numbers in their preferred format when they execute a program. However, I am not happy about the idea that a program source would need to be edited before it would work after being moved to another locale. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
