[Numpy-tickets] [NumPy] #902: inconsistent float to string conversion with german locale

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#902: inconsistent  float to string conversion with german locale
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 Reporter:  ChristianK                  |        Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect                      |       Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal                      |    Milestone:  1.2.0   
Component:  numpy.core                  |      Version:  1.1.1   
 Severity:  major                       |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  locale repr floating point  |  
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Comment (by AchimGaedke):

 An advanced example, revealing more trouble by German locale in connection
 with gtk.

 Consider this python program (saved as locale_trouble.py):
 {{{
 import numpy
 a=numpy.float32(1.2)
 print a, float(a)
 import gtk
 print a, float(a)
 }}}

 everything is fine, if you call this program as follows:
 {{{
 LANG="C" python locale_trouble.py
 1.2 1.20000004768
 1.2 1.20000004768
 }}}

 {{{
 LANG="de_DE" python locale_trouble.py
 1.2 1.20000004768
 1,2 1.20000004768
 }}}

 The coma in the last line is unexpected.

 This error also occurs when using pylab or matplotlib with gtk backend:
 {{{
 import pylab
 print pylab.rcParams["backend"]
 GTKAgg
 }}}
 This behaviour is observed with debian lenny and python 2.4 and python
 2.5,  numpy-1.1.0 and numpy-1.1.1 . On debian etch with numpy-1.0.1 we
 were not able to provoke a coma.

 The inconsitency is highly irritating, so we believe that is a bug.
 Following the python policy to use a dot for numbers, independent of
 locale definitions, also numpy should use dots. See note (3) on page:
 http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html

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