And I sort of disagree with saying it's naturally left- or right-
aligned; as numbers are naturally (decimal) dot-aligned (if you use dot
to separate the whole and fractional part of your number).
How about, "naturally aligned by place value".
Raymond
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Raymond Hettinger wrote:
I concur. Numbers are naturally right aligned.
Isn't numbers are "naturally right aligned" because of the Big Endian
notations that most mathematicians currently use. Had we been using
Little Endian notation, numbers would be naturally left-aligned,
wouldn't they?
> Mark Dickinson wrote:
>> I think the alignment for Decimal *does* need to be changed, though. It
>> currently left-aligns by default (my fault: I just blindly followed PEP
>> 3101
>> without thinking too hard about it). I'd like to fix this for 3.2 and
>> 2.7; I'm
>> not sure whether it's too
Mark Dickinson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
Hmm, I never noticed that. At this point, I think changing the formatting
for any types would break code, so we should just change the documentation
to reflect how currently works.
I think the alignment for Decimal *does*
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> Hmm, I never noticed that. At this point, I think changing the formatting
> for any types would break code, so we should just change the documentation
> to reflect how currently works.
I think the alignment for Decimal *does* need to be changed,
I concur. Numbers are naturally right aligned.
On Sep 7, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
The default string formatting alignment for all types, according to
PEP 3101, is left aligned. Issue 6857 (http://bugs.python.org/issue6857
) points out that for numeric types (int, float, and decim
Greg Ewing wrote:
Is the new formatting supposed to behave the same way
as %-formatting for the same format codes? Because the
default for %-formatting is actually right alignment
for *all* types, including strings.
Hmm, I never noticed that. At this point, I think changing the
formatting for
Eric Smith wrote:
Mark Dickinson and I agree that for numeric types, right alignment makes
much more sense as a default. And that's what %-formatting and
str.format() both do.
Is the new formatting supposed to behave the same way
as %-formatting for the same format codes? Because the
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