On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Eric Smith <eric@trueblade.com> wrote:
On 05/06/2011 11:45 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
It would also be nice to have an easy way to emit _ in suitable places. Maybe this could be added to the .format() language for numbers? It would be nice if you could tell it to emit an _ every N positions.
We already support commas (PEP 378). Adding underscores in the same way would be easy. However, you can't specify N, it's always 3.
Which would suck for non-decimal formats. :-( Also there seem to be some countries where the conventions for formatting currency uses groupings other than 1000. E.g. http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10226 (though specifying N wouldn't be enough there). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)