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Author ced
Recipients ced, docs@python, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, mark.dickinson, skrah
Date 2013-03-14.15:05:41
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locale.atof is not about formatting but parsing string into float following the locale.
For now, the only ways I see to parse a string to get a Decimal is to first convert it into float (which is not good if precision matters) or to use the undocumented parameter.
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