Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: On 2008-05-09, Eric Smith wrote: > Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > > The reason for this is that 'n' is defined in PEP 3101 as being a float > format only, and the rule is that if an integer sees a float format, it > does a float conversion and then prints the float with the supplied format. > > I'd be okay with adding 'n' as an integer format, with the loose > definition of "just like 'd', but adding thousands separators". > > As to the implementation, the OS supplied float formatting does not add > thousands separators. I added the function add_thousands_grouping() to > Python/pystrtod.c in order implement this for floats. It would be easy > to make this same code work for integers (and in fact it might already > work, although there are probably memory allocation issues to deal with). > > Maybe we should bring up modifying the PEP on python-dev or python-3000.
I hope that you do:-) > This issue exists in 2.6 as well. > > ---------- > components: +Interpreter Core > versions: +Python 2.6 > > __________________________________ > Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue2802> > __________________________________ __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2802> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
