Raymond Hettinger wrote: > The current formatting mini-language provisions left/right/center > alignment, prefixes for 0b 0x 0o, and rules on when to show the > plus-sign. I think it would be far more useful to provision a simple > way of specifying a thousands separator. > > Financial users in particular find the locale approach to be frustrating > and non-obvious. Putting in a thousands separator is a common task for > output destined to be read by non-programmers.
+1 for the general idea. A specific syntax proposal: [[fill]align][sign][#][0][minimumwidth][,sep][.precision][type] 'sep' is the new field that defines the thousands separator. It appears immediately before the precision specifier and starts with a leading comma. I believe this syntax is unambiguous and backwards compatible because the only other place a comma might appear (the fill field) is required to be followed by an alignment character. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
