On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Raymond Hettinger <python <at> rcn.com> writes: >> >> Financial users in particular find the locale approach to be frustrating and > non-obvious. Putting in a >> thousands separator is a >> common task for output destined to be read by non-programmers. > > Please note that for it to be useful in all parts of the world, it must also > allow changing the decimal point.
Now that this cat is out of the bag (or should I say now that this can of worms is opened :-) I suggest moving this to python-ideas and writing a proper PEP. I expect that nobody likes that idea, but it seems better than the alternative, which is to let the programmer who gets to implement it design it... -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
