On Mar 12, 9:56 pm, Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote: > [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. >
... and why not C (centum) for hundreds (can't have H(ollerith)) and W for wan (the Chinese word for 10 thousand)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
