From cf93d9fc4aee871f718bf7e75e7f77b2a8c06919 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:20:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add research on what COBOL does.

---
 pep-0378.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pep-0378.txt b/pep-0378.txt
index be4b6dcf2..5360b0827 100644
--- a/pep-0378.txt
+++ b/pep-0378.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ specifiers like::
 
     "_($* #,##0_)".
 
+COBOL uses picture clauses like::
+
+    PIC $***,**9.99CR
+
 `Common Lisp`_ uses a COLON before the ``~D`` decimal type specifier to
 emit a COMMA as a thousands separator.  The  general form of ``~D`` is
 ``~mincol,padchar,commachar,commaintervalD``.  The *padchar* defaults