On 2024-08-26 at 20:42:32 +1200,
dn via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> and if we really want to go over-board:
>
> >>> RIGHT_JUSTIFIED = ">"
> >>> THOUSANDS_SEPARATOR = ","
> >>> s_format = F"{RIGHT_JUSTIFIED}{S_FIELD_WIDTH}{THOUSANDS_SEPARATOR}"
>
> or (better) because right-justification is the default for numbers:
>
> >>> s_format = F"{S_FIELD_WIDTH}{THOUSANDS_SEPARATOR}"
>
>
> To the extreme that if your user keeps fiddling with presentations (none
> ever do, do they?), all settings to do with s_format could be added to a
> config/environment file, and thus be even further separated from
> program-logic!
And then you'll need a parser, many of whose Unique Challenges™ aren't
even apparent until you start parsing files from actual users, and
you'll still need some sort of fallback in the code anyway for the case
that s_format can't be parsed (for whatever reason).
Isn't a config file what just caused the global CrowdStrike outage? ;-)
That said, I understand that report generators are a thing, not to
mention RPG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG).
Okay, sorry; I'll just crawl back into the hole from whence I came.
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