I recall helping someone on #django with something similar to this, where the documentation, logical expectations and actual code went in rather different directions.
There was a condition where despite the setting being observed at one layer, a lower layer then went and ignored it anyway... will have to dig it up again... -- Curtis On 20 December 2013 08:19, Shai Berger <s...@platonix.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 19 December 2013 05:25:11 Yonel Ceruto González wrote: > > Forgive me if at some point was arrogant, it was not my intention to > impose > > my judgment or criticize, for me, the best framework that exists. Maybe I > > was not regarded with good intentions and therefore I believe the answers > > were focused to dodge my proposal.Most likely I knew not express well, > beg > > a thousand pardons. > > As the person who closed the ticket, your mail here indicates that I may > have > been too harsh, and I apologize for that. I would like to assure you that > your > intentions appear good, and your proposal was rejected purely on technical > reasons, mostly according to the documentation of USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR > and > USE_L10N. > > However, having looked again, I now think that you do have a case -- while > for > the settings you pointed to, the documentation strongly implies the current > behavior, the documentation for NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR does > support your interpretation (and in your first message you mentioned > having set > NUMBER_GROUPING=3). For both these settings, the documentation says: > > Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated > format has > higher precedence and will be applied instead. > > So -- to me, it looks like the documentation is not entirely consistent, > and > should be clarified; and while changing the behavior would be problematic, > changing it to match (some) documentation should be a possibility. > > I'm waiting for other opinions -- in particular, anyone involved with the > introduction of these settings, who can explain the original intentions -- > to > decide if we should reopen the ticket[1] as is or change it to a > documentation > ticket. > > Shai. > > [1] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21544 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/1516598.QbdADRIKfy%40deblack > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAG_XiSAi1yU1XwxR%2B_TSvgVi8VdYrezqSM5LUdc_QTUaqeU%3D%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
