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Thu Mar 12 07:19:05 CET 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087111.html

[Lie Ryan]
> How about having a country code field, e.g. en-us would format according 
> to US locale, in to India, ch to China, etc... that way the format 
> string would become very simple (although the lib maintainer would need 
> to know customs from all over the world). Then have a special country 
> code that is a placeholder for whatever the locale the machine is set to.

Am moving the discussion to the python-ideas list (at Guido's request).
My proposal is strictly limited to the builtin, non-locale dependent formatting.
Improvements to the locale module are probably as subject for another day.

Raymond

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