On Thursday, February 11, 2016 8:10 PM, Glenn Linderman <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2/11/2016 7:56 PM, David Mertz wrote: > >Great PEP overall. We definitely don't want the restriction to grouping >numbers only in threes. South Asian crore use grouping in twos. >>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore >> >Interesting... 3 digits in the least significant group, and _then_ by twos. Wouldn't have predicted that one! Never bumped into that notation before! The first time I used underscore separators in any language, it was a test script for a server that wanted social security numbers as integers instead of strings, like 123_45_6789.[^1] Which is why I suggested the style guideline should just say "meaningful grouping of digits", rather than try to predict what counts as "meaningful" for every program. [^1] Of course in Python, it's usually trivial to stick a shim in between the database and the model thingy so I could just pass in "123-45-6789", so I don't expect to ever need this specific example. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com