[Python-3000] Allowing underscores in numeric constants.

[Ian D. Bollinger]

John J Lee wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
To my my knowledge this was discussed on c.l.p, not python-dev, and 
there appeared to be little consensus as to whether it would be a good 
idea or not.

-- Ian D. Bollinger