python-gnome: float weirdness with gnome.ui is back

[Chris Lawrence]

reassign 119951 python-gnome, routeplanner-gnome
retitle 119951 python-gnome: float() works incorrectly after import gnome.ui
thanks

On Nov 17, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> Package: routeplanner-gnome
> Version: 0.12
> Severity: important
>
> After starting the Gnome routeplanner frontend and trying to open
> /usr/share/routeplanner/Basic-USA.rpl3.gz I get the following stack
> trace on the console:
>
> srittau@jroger:~$ grplan
> Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
> File "/usr/share/routeplanner/rpcity.py", line 36, in __init__
> self.longitude = float(data[2])
> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 0.000
>
> The "Loading Cities" requester then hangs a 0%.

I've done some more tracking. Here's the interesting result:

$ LANG=de_DE@euro rpcli NorthAmerica.rpl3
* This works

$ LANG=de_DE@euro grplan NorthAmerica.rpl3
* This doesn't work

The reason:

"from gnome.ui import *" does something nasty to the locale settings
that stops float() from working. Python's float builtin (like int) is
supposed to work in the C locale all of the time; even if you do
locale.setlocale(LC_ALL, "") in a program, the only things that are
affected are in the locale module itself. Even doing "import gnome.ui"
triggers the bug.

I don't know what exactly is going on, but it's probably something in
python-gnome. I'm passing this along to its maintainer.

(Torsten: I suspect the fix for #59713 got rolled back somewhere along
the line, or something similar is going on elsewhere in the code.)

Chris
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[Torsten Landschoff]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:11:11AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> I don't know what exactly is going on, but it's probably something in
> python-gnome. I'm passing this along to its maintainer.
>
> (Torsten: I suspect the fix for #59713 got rolled back somewhere along
> the line, or something similar is going on elsewhere in the code.)

Maybe. I have to check... Time to add a regression test to the package.

cu
Torsten