Well, I come from the United States, where we basically ignore international standards and let the rest of the world do what it wants. Except when it annoys us.
However, there is something called an internationalization which tells clever programmers who use it what to use as a digits separator and what to use as a decimal point. Support for I18N is built into most operating systems. Unfortunately, I don' t know the Python API. Does anybody? On Dec 18, 2006, at 10:35 AM, John Travers wrote: > On 18/12/06, Simson Garfinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It really depends on your audience as to whether or not 1,000,000 >> through 9,000,000 is better displayed in scientific notation or not. >> For audiences that I frequently present to, any scientific notation >> is just unacceptable. You can add quantifiers (like KBps, MBps, >> GBps), but presenting something a 5e+5 Bps will just be lost. You >> *might* get away with e+3, e+6, and e+9, but never the other e's. > > Where I come from (Europe) 9,000,000 means 9.0 and 9.000.000 means > what you mean. That is why there is an international standard of > having 9 000 000. Basically these things should be tunable through > simple rc options. > As to the point that different rc options can produce different > results on different machines, as far as I am aware, all options can > be overridden in the script itself (correct me if I am wrong?). > > Best regards, > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
