John J Lee wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Ian D. Bollinger wrote: > > >> Personally I like the idea (stolen from Perl, and others) of allowing >> underscores in numbers as to group digits, for instance: >> one_million = 1_000_000 >> maximum = 0xFF_FF_FF_FF >> >> Once four or more identical digits appear in a row, I find a number >> starts to become unwieldy, and separators would be a useful visual aid. >> > > This was discussed at length on python-dev not long ago. > > To my my knowledge this was discussed on c.l.p, not python-dev, and there appeared to be little consensus as to whether it would be a good idea or not.
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