[Python-Dev] Formatting mini-language suggestion

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

-On [20090312 06:50], Lie Ryan (lie.1296 at gmail.com) wrote:
>How about having a country code field, e.g. en-us would format according 
>to US locale, in to India, ch to China, etc... that way the format 
>string would become very simple (although the lib maintainer would need 
>to know customs from all over the world). Then have a special country 
>code that is a placeholder for whatever the locale the machine is set to.

Then you are effectively duplicating what is already available via CLDR [1]
and Babel [2].

[1] http://www.unicode.org/cldr/
[2] http://babel.edgewall.org/

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