Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:10:53 -0300, Stargaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:19:53 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote: >> >>> There are various things I like about the D language that I think Python >>> too may enjoy. Here are few bits (mostly syntactical ones): >>> >>> 1) (we have discussed part of this in the past) You can put underscores >>> inside number literals, like 1_000_000, the compiler doesn't enforce the >>> position of such underscores, so you can also put them like this: >>> 1_00_000. You can put them in literals of decimals, binary, hex, etc. I >> Sounds like a good thing to be but the arbitrary positioning doesnt make >> any sense. Additionally, I'd suggest 10**n in such cases (eg. 10**6). > > Why not? Because in English major numbers are labeled in thousands? > (thousand, million, billion...) > In India, they're grouped by two after the first thousand; in China, > they're grouped each 4 digits (that is, there is a single word for "ten > thousands" = wan4 = 万, and the next required word is for 10**8 = yi4 = 亿) >
Yes, in China numbers are grouped each 4 digits while it is different in other countries, so I think it would be better if we could put arbitrary white spaces inside number literals. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
