[Python-3000] Allowing underscores in numeric constants.

[John J Lee]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Ian D. Bollinger wrote:

> Personally I like the idea (stolen from Perl, and others) of allowing
> underscores in numbers as to group digits, for instance:
> one_million = 1_000_000
> maximum = 0xFF_FF_FF_FF
>
> Once four or more identical digits appear in a row, I find a number
> starts to become unwieldy, and separators would be a useful visual aid.

This was discussed at length on python-dev not long ago.


John