Rough draft: Proposed format specifier for a thousands separator
Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Thu Mar 12 14:38:22 EDT 2009
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
<... a generally interesting PEP...>
Missing from this PEP:
output below the decimal point.
show results for something like:
format(12345.54321, "15,.5f") --> ' 12,345.543,21'
Explain the interaction on sizes and lengths (which numbers are digits,
which are length [I vote for length on overall, digits on precision]),
and what happens with length-4 -- I'd say explicitly 1000 is show as
"1,000" despite style sheets that prefer "1000" and "10,000".
FWIW, I agree with pruebano, do the simplest easily usable thing, and
provide a way to swap the commas and periods. The rest can be ponied
in by string processing.
--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
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