Simson Garfinkel wrote: > 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. > Insert wink or smiley face here to signify irony, yes? > 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 >
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