[Python-checkins] r70362 - peps/trunk/pep-0378.txt

Sat Mar 14 04:08:00 CET 2009

Author: raymond.hettinger
Date: Sat Mar 14 04:08:00 2009
New Revision: 70362
Log:
Wording tweaks.
Modified:
 peps/trunk/pep-0378.txt
Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0378.txt
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--- peps/trunk/pep-0378.txt	(original)
+++ peps/trunk/pep-0378.txt	Sat Mar 14 04:08:00 2009
@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@
 with a thousands separator.
 
 Adding thousands separators is one of the simplest ways to
-improve the professional appearance and readability of output.
+humanize a program's output, improving its professional appearance
+and readability.
 
-In the finance world, output with commas is the norm. Finance
-users and non-professional programmers find the locale
+In the finance world, output with thousands separators is the norm.
+Finance users and non-professional programmers find the locale
 approach to be frustrating, arcane and non-obvious.
 
 The locale module presents two other challenges. First, it is
@@ -210,7 +211,8 @@
 
 * Some newsgroup respondants think there is no place for any
 scripts that are not internationalized and that it is a step
- backwards to provide a simple way to hardwire a given convention.
+ backwards to provide a simple way to hardwire a particular choice
+ (thus reducing incentive to use a locale sensitive approach).
 
 * Another thought is that embedding some particular convention in
 individual format strings makes it hard to change that convention
