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Wording tweaks.

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Raymond Hettinger 2009-03-14 03:08:00 +00:00
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@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ Provide a simple, non-locale aware way to format a number
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 @@ Commentary
* 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