pygtk spinbutton "greek" floating point

Question

I'm trying to use the data collected by a form I to a sqlite query. In this form I've made a spin button which gets any numeric input (ie. either2,34 or 2.34) and sends it in the form of 2,34 which python sees as str.

I've already tried to float() the value but it doesn't work. It seems to be a locale problem but somehow locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') is unsupported (says WinXP). All these happen even though I haven't set anything to greek (language, locale, etc) but somehow Windows does its magic.

Can someone help?

PS: Of course my script starts with # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- so as to have anything in greek (even comments) in the code.

Answer 1

AFAIK, WinXP supports setlocale just fine.

If you want to do locale-aware conversions, try using locale.atof('2,34') instead of float('2,34').