[Ulrich Eckhardt] > IOW, why not explicitly say what you want using keyword arguments with > defaults instead of inventing an IMHO cryptic, read-only mini-language?
That makes sense to me but I don't think that's the way the format() builtin was implemented (see PEP 3101 which was implemented Py2.6 and 3.0). It is a simple pass-through to a __format__ method for each formattable object. I don't see how keywords would fit in that framework. What is proposed is similar to locale module's existing "n" specifier except that this lets you say exactly what you want instead of deferring to the locale settings. The mini-language seems to already be the way of things (just as it is many other languages including PHP, C, Fortran, and whatnot). I'm just proposing an addition "T," so you add commas as a thousands separator. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
