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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at ...> writes:
> 
> > PPS: I HAVE A HISTORY OF BEING ADMITTED TO A MENTAL INSTITUTION AFTER 
> > SEEING NUMBERS WITH COMMAS USED AS THOUSAND SEPARATOR.
> > PPPS: The next statement is a lie.
> > PPPPS: The mental institution thing is true.

I am fully sympathetic.

> PPPPPPPS: The financial world != American financial institutions

Agreed, but they have the largest debts.
Therefore, real-life examples of commas used as thousands separators should
include a negative sign.