Rough draft: Proposed format specifier for a thousands separator

[Rhodri James]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:41:23 -0000, MRAB <google at mrabarnett.plus.com>  
wrote:

> Rhodri James wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:47:32 -0000, MRAB <google at mrabarnett.plus.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not against putting a comma in the format to indicate that grouping
>>> should be used just as a dot indicates that a decimal point should be
>>> used. The locale would say what characters would be used for them.
>>>
>>> I would prefer the format to have a fixed default so that if you don't
>>> specify the locale the result is predictable.
>>  Shouldn't that be the global locale?
>>
> Other parts of the language, such as str.upper, aren't locale-sensitive,
> so I think that format shouldn't be either. If you want it to be
> locale-sensitive, then specify the locale, even if it's the system
> locale.

Yes, but the format type 'n' is currently defined as taking its cues
 from the global locale, so in that sense format already is
locale-sensitive.

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