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On 2/11/2016 8:22 PM, Andrew Barnert
wrote:
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 8:10 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
On 2/11/2016 7:56 PM, David Mertz wrote:Great PEP overall. We definitely don't want the restriction to grouping numbers only in threes. South Asian crore use grouping in twos.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore
Interesting... 3 digits in the least significant group, and _then_
by twos. Wouldn't have predicted that one! Never bumped into that
notation before!The first time I used underscore separators in any language, it was a test script for a server that wanted social security numbers as integers instead of strings, like 123_45_6789.[^1]
Which is why I suggested the style guideline should just say "meaningful grouping of digits", rather than try to predict what counts as "meaningful" for every program.
[^1] Of course in Python, it's usually trivial to stick a shim in between the database and the model thingy so I could just pass in "123-45-6789", so I don't expect to ever need this specific example.
Yes, I had thought of the Social Security Number possibility also,
although having them as constants in a program seems a bit unusual.
Test script, fake numbers, yeah, I guess so.