On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 09:48:49AM +0100, Georg Brandl wrote: > Hi all, > > after talking to Guido and Serhiy we present the next revision > of this PEP. It is a compromise that we are all happy with, > and a relatively restricted rule that makes additions to PEP 8 > basically unnecessary. > > I think the discussion has shown that supporting underscores in > the from-string constructors is valuable, therefore this is now > added to the specification section.
What about Fraction? Currently this is legal: py> Fraction("1/1000000") Fraction(1, 1000000) I think the PEP should also support underscores in Fractions: Fraction("1/1_000_000") > The remaining open question is about the reverse direction: do > we want a string formatting modifier that adds underscores as > thousands separators? Yes please. > Open Proposals > ============== > > It has been proposed [11]_ to extend the number-to-string formatting > language to allow ``_`` as a thousans separator, where currently only > ``,`` is supported. This could be used to easily generate code with > more readable literals. /s/thousans/thousands/ -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com