Rough draft: Proposed format specifier for a thousands separator

[rzed]

Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote in
news:e35271b9-7623-4845-bcb9-d8c33971f2e0 at w24g2000prd.googlegroups.c
om: 

> If anyone here is interested, here is a proposal I posted on the
> python-ideas list.
> 
> The idea is to make numbering formatting a little easier with the
> new format() builtin
> in Py2.6 and Py3.0: 
> http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#formatspec 
> 
[...]
> Comments and suggestions are welcome but I draw the line at
> supporting Mayan numbering conventions ;-)

Is that inclusive or exclusive?

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rzed