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Author jhermann
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Date 2001-04-26.15:08:15
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In Py_Initialize(), check that the locale setting for 
LC_NUMERIC is "C" (and issue some sort of warning if 
not, e.g. assert() that setting), as required by 
section 6.22.2 of the Python 2.0 library reference.

I'd rather have my embedded interpreter exit() than 
having VERY strange or even unnoticed problems with 
floating point constants.

The problem I had and that triggered this request was 
this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "cgi-bin/test.py", line 7, in ?
    import random
  File "./random.py", line 93, in ?
    verify('NV_MAGICCONST', 1.71552776992141)
  File "./random.py", line 78, in verify
    raise ValueError, \
ValueError: computed value for NV_MAGICCONST deviates 
too much (computed 2.82843, expected 1)
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