[Chandler-dev] float('1.0') failing occasionally in French locale

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Andi,

> Hence, my earlier suggestion (on the parallel bugzilla thread), of
> switching to using the PyICU number parsing routines instead.

I can certainly do this, but the Python community needs a locale
independent string-to-float routine, it seems to me, and I don't think
PyICU is the answer for everyone.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey