On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Ken Kundert <python-id...@shalmirane.com> wrote: > [...] Similarly when people refer to the length of > the Olympic road race in Rio, they say 56km, not 56000m.
However I can't help to point out that if I said the distance to the sun is 149.6 Gm, most people would do a double-take. > This is really only an issue with output. So maybe the proposal should be toned down to just a way to request SI units when formatting numbers? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/