On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:04:58 -0000, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com>
wrote:
It should probably(?) be:
financial = Locale(group_sep=",", grouping=[3])
print("my number is {0:10n:fin}".format(1234567, fin=financial))
The format "10n" says whether to use separators or a decimal point; the
locale "fin" says what the separator and the decimal point look like.
That works, and isn't an abomination on the face of the existing syntax.
Excellent.
I'm rather presuming that the "n" presentation type does grouping. I've
only got Python 2.5 here, so I can't check it out (no str.format() method
and "%n" isn't supported by "%" formatting). If it does, an "m" type to
do the same thing only with the LC_MONETARY group settings instead of the
LC_NUMERIC ones would be a good idea.
This would be my preferred solution to Raymond's original
comma-in-the-format-string proposal, by the way: add an "m" presentation
type as above, and tell people to override the LC_MONETARY group settings
in the global locale. It's clear that it's a bodge, and weaning users
onto local locales (!) wouldn't be so hard later on.
Anyway, time I stopped hypothesising about locales and started looking at
the actual code-base, methinks.
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