Alexander Schmolck: > It also reads well, unlike the underscore > which is visually obstrusive and ugly (compare 123'456'890 to 123_456_789).
I like that enough, in my language that symbol is indeed the standard one to separate thousands, in large numbers. It's light, looks natural, and as you say it's visually unobstrusive. But in my language ' means just thousands, so it's used only in blocks of 3 digits, not in blocks of any length, so something like this looks a bit strange/wrong: 0b'0000'0000 While the underscore has no meaning, so it can be used in both situations. A problem is that '1234' in Python is a string, so using ' in numbers looks a bit dangerous to me (and my editor will color those numbers as alternated strings, I think). Note that for other people the ' denotes feet, while in my language it denotes minutes, while I think the underscore has no meaning. So for me the underscore is better :-) Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
