RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator

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> From: oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 01:30:53 +0100
> Subject: Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
> To: carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com
> CC: pruebauno@latinmail.com; python-list@python.org
>
> On 22 May 2013 23:31, Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>> I still don't understand why % benefits from literals optimization ("'%d'%12345") while '{:d}'.format(12345) doesn't.
>
> There's no reason why that optimisation can't happen in principle.
> However no one has written a patch for it. Why don't you look into
> what it would take to make it happen?
>
>
> Oscar

Maybe I'll look into that later, but I couldn't even find how the hell they made _Py_InsertThousandsGrouping() been called.

That's what I got when analysing % formating:

Thousands separator format specifier for str.__mod__()
======================================================

@Objects/stringobject.c: implements formatint() for '%' processing
-Looking for code used in str.format()

@Objects/stringlib/formatter.h: implements str.format()
-It uses STRINGLIB_GROUPING() to do the job.

@Objects/stringlib/stringdefs.h: #define STRINGLIB_GROUPING       _PyString_InsertThousandsGrouping
@Objects/stringlib/unicodedefs.h: #define STRINGLIB_GROUPING       _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGrouping
@Objects/stringobject.c: #define _Py_InsertThousandsGrouping _PyString_InsertThousandsGrouping
@Objects/stringobject.h: declares _PyString_InsertThousandsGrouping()
@???: ??? _PyString_InsertThousandsGrouping ??? _Py_InsertThousandsGrouping
@Objects/stringlib/localeutil.h: implements _Py_InsertThousandsGrouping()

Let me explain what that means. I found no relating declarations/definitions that turn _PyString_InsertThousandsGrouping into _Py_InsertThousandsGrouping.

So, I don't even know how that source code compiles without error.

:/ really strange...

Not to mention the lots of code inside header definition files! Weird!!!!

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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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