Message 154160 - Python tracker
> By the way, Python 3.2 fails also to handle > non-ASCII thousands separator or non-ASCII > decimal point: (...) Hum, it is not trivial to redo the work on Python 3.2. I prefer to leave the code unchanged to not introduce a regression, and I wait until a Python 3.2 user complains (the bug exists since Python 3.0 and nobody complained).