PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator

Tue May 21 22:56:53 EDT 2013

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> From: steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
> Subject: Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 02:42:56 +0000
> To: python-list at python.org
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> On Tue, 21 May 2013 23:22:24 +0300, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote:
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>> Anyway, is it possible to overload str.__mod__() without deriving a
>> class? I mean to have something like:
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> No, not in Python. If you want to monkey-patch built-in classes on the
> fly, with all the troubles that causes, use Ruby.
>

So, the only alternative to have "'%,d' % x" rendering the thousands separator output would a C source code modification?

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