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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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Message-id	<1363273541.36.0.489088601072.issue13918@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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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.

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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Date	User	Action	Args
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2013-03-14 15:05:41	ced	create