[Python-Dev] Formatting mini-language suggestion

[Antoine Pitrou]

Raymond Hettinger <python <at> rcn.com> writes:
> 
> Financial users in particular find the locale approach to be frustrating and
non-obvious.  Putting in a
> thousands separator is a 
> common task for output destined to be read by non-programmers.

Please note that for it to be useful in all parts of the world, it must also
allow changing the decimal point.