Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > [James Y Knight] >> You might be interested to know that in India, the commas don't come >> every 3 digits. In india, they come every two digits, after the first >> three. Thus one billion = 1,00,00,00,000. How are you gonna represent >> *that* in a formatting mini-language? :) > > It is not the goal to replace locale or to accomodate every > possible convention. The goal is to make a common task easier > for many users. The current, default use of the period as a decimal > point has not proven to be problem eventhough that convention is > not universal. For a thousands separator, a comma is a decent choice > that makes it easy follow-on with s.replace(',', '_') or somesuch.
In that case, I would simplify my suggestion to: [[fill]align][sign][#][0][minimumwidth][,][.precision][type] Addition to mini language documentation: The ',' option indicates that commas should be included in the output as a thousands separator. As with locales which do not use a period as the decimal point, locales which use a different convention for digit separation will need to use the locale module to obtain appropriate formatting. Guido has asked for a PEP to be developed on python-ideas to define the deliberately limited scope though, so I'm going to bow out of the conversation now... Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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