[Python-ideas] 1_000_000

[Kirubakaran]

Ah, thanks. Sorry, I don't know how I failed to see that.


On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com>wrote:

> I believe that the original suggestion was meant to be more general than
> the specific suggestions for powers of 10.  For example, consider the
> following hypothetical:
>
> for i in range(1, 1_111_111_111, 1024):
>     pass
>
> where the _ really helps in figuring out the size.
>
> André
>
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Kirubakaran <kirubakaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (fixed typo)
>> How about range(10**6) ?
>>
>> - Kirubakaran.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Kirubakaran <kirubakaran at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> How about range(10**60) ?
>>>
>>> - Kirubakaran.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 6 May 2011 23:06:18 +0200
>>>> "dag.odenhall at gmail.com"
>>>> <dag.odenhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > On 6 May 2011 19:51, Matt Chaput <
>>>> matt-KKMwxO2wslj3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> > > Not sure if this has been proposed before: A syntax change to allow
>>>> > > underscores as thousands separators in literal numbers to improve
>>>> > > readability, e.g.:
>>>> > >
>>>> > >  for i in range(1, 1_000_000):
>>>> > >    pass
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I believe D allows this and while it's a small thing it really is
>>>> much more
>>>> > > readable.
>>>> >
>>>> > Ruby too.
>>>> >
>>>> > You could also use e-notation[1]: 1e6, in your example. In many
>>>> > situations it's even more readable because you don't need to "count
>>>> > the zeros". This is already supported in Python.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, but it gives a float, not an integer:
>>>>
>>>> >>> for i in range(0, 1e6): pass
>>>> ...
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>> TypeError: 'float' object cannot be interpreted as an integer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Antoine.
>>>>
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