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diff --git a/Doc/library/locale.rst b/Doc/library/locale.rst index 7da94a2..2fd44fe 100644 --- a/Doc/library/locale.rst +++ b/Doc/library/locale.rst @@ -147,6 +147,16 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions: | ``CHAR_MAX`` | Nothing is specified in this locale. | +--------------+-----------------------------------------+ + The function sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale to the ``LC_NUMERIC`` + locale to decode ``decimal_point`` and ``thousands_sep`` byte strings if + they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale is + different than the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale. This temporary change affects other + threads. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.7 + The function now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale to the + ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale in some cases. + .. function:: nl_langinfo(option) |