[Python-Dev] Formatting mini-language suggestion (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 12 21:10:31 CET 2009


Nick Coghlan wrote:

[[fill]align][sign][#][0][minimumwidth][,sep][.precision][type]

'sep' is the new field that defines the thousands separator.

Wouldn't it be better to use a locale setting for this, instead of having to specify it in every format string? If an app is using a particular thousands separator in one place, it will probably want to use it everywhere.

-- Greg



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