[Myrsloik]

Originally Posted by ChaosKing

Maybe it is easier to use locale https://docs.python.org/2/library/locale.html -> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_us')
Python returns this on a german Windows 10:

python -c "import locale; print(locale.localeconv())"

{'int_curr_symbol': '', 'currency_symbol': '', 'mon_decimal_point': '', 'mon_thousands_sep': '', 'mon_grouping': [], 'positive_sign': '', 'negative_sign': '', 
'int_frac_digits': 127, 'frac_digits': 127, 'p_cs_precedes': 127, 'p_sep_by_space': 127, 'n_cs_precedes': 127, 
'n_sep_by_space': 127, 'p_sign_posn': 127, 'n_sign_posn': 127, 'decimal_point': '.', 'thousands_sep': '', 'grouping': []}

That is a really horrible idea. Now imagine using VS from inside an application that itself sets the locale to something in order to work. You've now broken everything.

LIBRARIES MUST NEVER MODIFY GLOBAL APPLICATION STATE