Re: [Python-ideas] Rough draft: Proposed format specifier for a thousands separator (discussion moved from python-dev)

[Bruce Leban]

If I'm French then all decimal points should be ',' not '.' regardless of what language the developer speaks, right?

We already have a locale aware solution and that should be used for internationalized apps. The locale module is not going away. This proposal is for everyday programs for local consumption (most scripts never get internationalized). I would even venture that most Python scripts are not written by professional programmers. If an accountant needs to knock-out a quick report, he/she should have a simple means of basic formatting without invoking all of the locale machinery. Raymond