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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 12 21🔞55 CET 2009


James Y Knight wrote:

You might be interested to know that in India, the commas don't come every 3 digits. In india, they come every two digits, after the first three. Thus one billion = 1,00,00,00,000. How are you gonna represent that in a formatting mini-language? :)

We outsource it. Send the number by email to a service centre in India, where an employee formats it for us and sends it back.

-- Greg



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