Raymond Hettinger wrote:
If anyone here is interested, here is a proposal I posted on the
python-ideas list.
The idea is to make numbering formatting a little easier with the new
format() builtin
in Py2.6 and Py3.0: http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#formatspec
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Motivation:
Provide a simple, non-locale aware way to format
> a number with a thousands separator.
Adding thousands separators is one of the simplest ways to improve the
professional appearance and readability of output.
In the finance world, output with commas is the norm. Finance users and
non-professional programmers find the locale approach to be frustrating, arcane
and non-obvious.
The locale module presents two other challenges. First, it is a global setting and not
suitable for multi-threaded apps that need to serve-up requests in multiple locales.
Second, the name of a relevant locale (such as "de_DE") can vary from platform
to platform or may not be defined at all. The docs for the locale module describe these
and many other challenges [1] in detail.
It is not the goal to replace the locale module or to accommodate every
possible convention. Such tasks are better suited to robust tools like Babel
[2] . Instead, our goal is to make a common, everyday task easier for many
users.
Comments and suggestions are welcome but I draw the line at supporting
Mayan numbering conventions ;-)
Raymond
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