En Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:28:31 -0300, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> FYI: The $ sign is used to denote currency in many countries; as a > rule of thumb countties that call their currency "dollars" or "pesos" > use the $. So Mexico, Canada, Australia, much of Latin America, much > of the Pacific, not to mention countries in Africa (Zimbabwe) and Asia > (Singapore). [OT] Furthermore, the $ sign was used originally to denote "pesos", or Spanish reals (pieces of eight each). It was later that the US adopted the sign to denote "dollars" too. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list