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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	eric.smith, rhettinger, wyz23x2
Date	2020-07-09.04:55:17
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This was considered in PEP 378 — Format Specifier for Thousands Separator.¹ The decision was to keep it simple and only support groups of three digits using a comma as the separator. FWIW, the decimal documentation has a formatting recipe that could be adapted to meet your needs.² ¹ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0378/ ² https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html#recipes

This was considered in PEP 378 — Format Specifier for Thousands Separator.¹  The decision was to keep it simple and only support groups of three digits using a comma as the separator.

FWIW, the decimal documentation has a formatting recipe that could be adapted to meet your needs.²

¹ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0378/
² https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html#recipes

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