On 2/11/2016 8:22 PM, Andrew Barnert wrote: > On Thursday, February 11, 2016 8:10 PM, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> 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. > Yes, I had thought of the Social Security Number possibility also, although having them as constants in a program seems a bit unusual. Test script, fake numbers, yeah, I guess so. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160211/21dbceca/attachment.html>
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