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[Guido van Rossum]

Too ambiguous, too hard to parse. I like the _ proposal.
On May 6, 2011 5:45 PM, "Ben Finney" <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
>
>> An alternative would be to allow spaces.
>
> I would prefer to allow space between digits in a numeric literal.
>
> 1 2345 6789
> 1 2 3 4 5 6789
> 1 234 6789
> 1 234 567 89
> 9.876 543 210
> 0xFEFF 0042
>
> This nicely parallels the fact that space can separate chunks of a
> string literal.
>
> But that still leaves the following inconsistency:
>
> int('1 234 567')
>
> That will currently raise a ValueError. Should it continue to do so
> under this proposal?
>
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> Ben Finney
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