PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
Oscar Benjamin
oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com
Wed May 22 20:30:53 EDT 2013
On 22 May 2013 23:31, Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> I still don't understand why % benefits from literals optimization ("'%d'%12345") while '{:d}'.format(12345) doesn't.
There's no reason why that optimisation can't happen in principle.
However no one has written a patch for it. Why don't you look into
what it would take to make it happen?
Oscar
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