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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 16 00:01:50 CET 2009


Scott David Daniels wrote:

>    B   ' 9,876.543,21', ' 9,876.543,2'
>    C   '  9,876.543,2', '  9,876.543,'
>    D   '  9,876.543,2', '   9,876.543'

What???

On the planet I come from, nobody uses separators
for digits *after* the decimal point, unless perhaps
if they're spaces. Certainly never commas.

-- 
Greg




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