[issue5125] Strange locale problem with Python 3

Reto Schüttel added the comment: Hey Mark, Stefan I've got the example working again with 3.1 and it appears like the behaviour has been reverted to the pre-3.0 days. So the problem is fixed for me :)! with 3.1 (and 2.6) atof only accepts a '.' as a decimal delimiter, regardless of the conf

[issue5125] Strange locale problem with Python 3

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Actually, for Python 3.x, rather than using strtod directly it would be better to use the PyOS_string_to_double C-API function. That function is entirely locale-agnostic: it should behave identically to the float constructor. Python 3.0 is no longer support

[issue5125] Strange locale problem with Python 3

Stefan Krah added the comment: As an aside, I would not use atof(). Better use something like: char *end; f = strtod(input, &end); if (*end != '\0') { PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError, "Could not convert: %s", end); return NULL; } I've two questions: 1) Does the problem still appear in

[issue5125] Strange locale problem with Python 3

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[issue5125] Strange locale problem with Python 3

New submission from Reto Schüttel : Hi While helping Brandon Rhodes to port PyEphem[1] to Python 3 we struggled over a strange locale-related problem on OS X. PyEphem is a library which can do astronomical computations like tracking the position of stars, planets and earth satellites relative to