Raymond Hettinger wrote: > No doubt that you're skeptical of anything you didn't > already know ;-) I'm a CPA, was a 15 year division controller > for a Fortune 500 company, and an auditor for an international > accounting firm. Believe me when I say it is the norm in finance. > Besides, it seems like you're arguing that thousands separators > aren't needed anywhere at all and have doubts about their > utility. Pick-up your pocket calculator and take a look. > Look at your paycheck or your bank statement.
My current bank and my previous bank use 2 ways to write numbers: 1. a decimal comma, and a space (or half-space or any other appropriate small whitespace) as a thousands separator 2. written full out in words (including the currency names) Invoices (not from these banks) often use a point as the thousands separator (although that's "wrong" according to some national standards, it's probably okay according to accounting standards...). The second formatting (full words) is a legal requirement on certain financial & legal documents here (and I can imagine in other countries too?). Anybody working on a PEP about implementing a 'w' (for "wordy"?) formatting type? ;-) -- JanC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
