[Python-ideas] real numbers with SI scale factors

Sven R. Kunze srkunze at mail.de
Mon Aug 29 16:55:28 EDT 2016


On 29.08.2016 11:37, Chris Angelico wrote:
> That's why I keep asking you for code examples. Real-world code, taken
> from important projects, that would be significantly improved by this
> proposal.

There was no reasonable real-world code examples taken from important 
projects, that would be significantly improved by underscores in numbers.

Still, we got them, so your argument here is void.

> It has to be Python 3 compatible (unless you reckon that
> this is the killer feature that will make people take the jump from
> 2.7), and it has to be enough of an improvement that its authors will
> be willing to drop support for <3.6 (which might be a trivial concern,
> eg if the author expects to be the only person running the code).
All of those "has to be"s are optional (cf. underscores in numbers) and 
that's not different for this proposal.

Sven



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