PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator

[Ned Batchelder]

On 5/22/2013 10:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2013 05:45:12 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
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>> I didn't mean to create a tempest in a teapot.  I was away from
>> comp.lang.python, python-bugs, and python-dev for a few years.  In
>> particular, I didn't ever see the aforementioned thread from Feb 2012.
>>   Had I known of that thread I would have worded the sentence which
>> shall not be repeated differently.
>>
>> My apologies...
> No problem, it's not about you specifically, it's just that some of us
> fans of % formatting can be a tad sensitive about it, especially since
> the idea that it has been deprecated (or soon will be deprecated, or one
> day will be deprecated, and therefore code using it is bad) is relatively
> widespread on the Internet.

Seems like maybe this should become a question in the Python FAQ.

--Ned.

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> Glad to have you back here!
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