[issue2802] str.format() :n integer output

[Mark Summerfield]

Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu> added the comment:

On 2008-05-09, Eric Smith wrote:
> Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> added the comment:
>
> The reason for this is that 'n' is defined in PEP 3101 as being a float
> format only, and the rule is that if an integer sees a float format, it
> does a float conversion and then prints the float with the supplied format.
>
> I'd be okay with adding 'n' as an integer format, with the loose
> definition of "just like 'd', but adding thousands separators".
>
> As to the implementation, the OS supplied float formatting does not add
> thousands separators.  I added the function add_thousands_grouping() to
> Python/pystrtod.c in order implement this for floats.  It would be easy
> to make this same code work for integers (and in fact it might already
> work, although there are probably memory allocation issues to deal with).
>
> Maybe we should bring up modifying the PEP on python-dev or python-3000.

I hope that you do:-)

> This issue exists in 2.6 as well.
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