formatting a string with thousands separators

[SimonPalmer]

anyone recommend a way of formatting floats with comma separators?

e.g. 500000.00 -500,000.00

[Alan G Isaac]

On 9/7/2008 12:22 PM SimonPalmer apparently wrote:

anyone recommend a way of formatting floats with comma separators?

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/498181/

Alan Isaac

[James Mills]

Hi,

There is a much easier more consistent way:

>>import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_AU.UTF-8")

'en_AU.UTF-8'

>>locale.format("%0.2f", 5000000, True)

'5,000,000.00'

>>>

cheers
James

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Alan G Isaac <al********@gmail.comwrote:

On 9/7/2008 12:22 PM SimonPalmer apparently wrote:

>>
anyone recommend a way of formatting floats with comma separators?

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/498181/

Alan Isaac
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[Fredrik Lundh]

James Mills wrote:

There is a much easier more consistent way:

>>>import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_AU.UTF-8")

'en_AU.UTF-8'

doesn't work on all Python platforms, though:

>>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_AU.UTF-8")

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "c:\python25\lib\locale.py", line 478, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

and is likely to give you somewhat unpredictable output if you use the
machine's actual locale:

>>import os
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, os.environ["LANG"])

'sv_SE.UTF-8'

>>locale.format("%0.2f", 5000000, True)

'5000000,00'

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