I have a string in the format 100.000,53 (my country uses points as thousands separator and a comma as the decimal separator). I know about:
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'de_DE')
locale.atof('100.000,53')
However, this seems to always throw ValueError: could not convert string to float: '100.000.53'for me (Python 3.6).
Additionally, as money is involved, I want the result to be a decimals number. Can I simply cast the result of atof to decimal?
