funny behaviour gtk+python

[Simon McVittie]

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Sorry, didn't send my reply to both the mailing lists. Replying to
myself to preserve the cross-posting.

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 at 14:44:08 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 at 14:23:58 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> > Just to add a  little to say that this particular csound error is
> > issued when there is an incorrect numeric format, say
> > 11.B or 11.1A. In here, if I only use integers, there is
> > no error, but all decimals are raising the error. Here's the
> > Csound code fragment that issues the error:
> ...
> >        tmpVal = (MYFLT) strtod(s, &tmp);
> 
> strtod() respects the process' locale settings. Importing gtk probably
> pulls in the locale settings from the environment and sets them as the
> process-wide locale (see setlocale(3)).
> 
> GLib has a function g_ascii_strtod(), and Python has PyOS_ascii_strtod
> (which is actually the same function). csound ought to be using something
> equivalent to this to parse locale-independent decimals, rather than
> using the C library's strtod().
> 
> See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0331/ for more details.
> 
> 	Simon
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