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Writing long numbers in Python 3.6 #programming #language #perl #python

🕠︎ - 2017-01-22

I love this new innovation in Python - you can make long numbers more readable with underscores (e.g. 1_000_000).

Perl has had this for... how long? At least 26 years (Perl 4.0).

🕠︎ - 2017-01-22 - 1 comment

… and to this day I was not aware that Perl offered that possibility even though I never worked with Perl pre-4 :-). Interesting.

- Tim Landscheidt 🕑︎ - 2017-01-23

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