March 18, 2009
10:33 p.m.
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Agreed, but they have the largest debts. Therefore, real-life examples of commas used as thousands separators should include a negative sign.
A. :) B. All I can suggest is to try to think of the "commas as separators in format()" situation as being in the same vein as that whole "let use English keywords where possible" idea :) Hopefully a way will be found to provide a less English-centric but still easy to use formatting system eventually, but in the meantime Python *is* a language that looks like English pseudocode... Cheers, Nick -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------