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

Bruce Leban wrote:

When you say 'user' you mean 'developer'. Having the developer choose the separators means it *won't* be what the user wants. Why would you stick in separators if not to display to a user?

I agree. I don't see a use case for hard-coding non-standard separators into every format string. So I'm +1 on proposal I and -1 on proposal II. Also +1 on providing a "use the locale" option that's orthogonal to the type specifier. -- Greg