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Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator

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On May 22, 2:30 pm, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> On 5/22/2013 10:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> > On Wed, 22 May 2013 05:45:12 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
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> >> I didn't mean to create a tempest in a teapot.  I was away from
> >> comp.lang.python, python-bugs, and python-dev for a few years.  In
> >> particular, I didn't ever see the aforementioned thread from Feb 2012.
> >>   Had I known of that thread I would have worded the sentence which
> >> shall not be repeated differently.
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> >> My apologies...
> > No problem, it's not about you specifically, it's just that some of us
> > fans of % formatting can be a tad sensitive about it, especially since
> > the idea that it has been deprecated (or soon will be deprecated, or one
> > day will be deprecated, and therefore code using it is bad) is relatively
> > widespread on the Internet.
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> Seems like maybe this should become a question in the Python FAQ.
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> --Ned.
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> > Glad to have you back here!

Maybe a cformat(formatstring, variables)  function should be created
in the string module so people who prefer that can use it. I don't
mind the C formatting syntax but I don't like the fact that the %
operator does something totally different when the first variable is
an integer and the fact that it misbehaves if the second variable is a
tuple.

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Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-21 14:53 -0500
  Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-22 02:59 +0000
    Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-21 22:38 -0500
    Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-22 05:45 -0500
      Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-22 14:58 +0000
        Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-22 14:30 -0400
          Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator nn <pruebauno@latinmail.com> - 2013-05-22 13:26 -0700
            RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-23 01:31 +0300
              Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator nn <pruebauno@latinmail.com> - 2013-05-23 06:44 -0700
                RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-23 18:26 +0300
                Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-23 14:42 -0400
                Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator nn <pruebauno@latinmail.com> - 2013-05-24 06:50 -0700
                Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-05-23 16:19 -0400
                RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-24 01:20 +0300
                Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2013-05-23 21:17 -0400
                RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-24 04:41 +0300
            Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-05-23 01:30 +0100
            RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-23 03:44 +0300

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