Re: Insert comma in number?

From	Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject	Re: Insert comma in number?
Date	2013-03-07 09:58 +0100
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Paul Volkov wrote:

> 2013/3/7 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>:
>> Last not least there's the option to employ locale-aware formatting:
>>
>>>>> import locale
>>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8")
>> 'en_US.UTF-8'
>>>>> locale.format("%d", 12345, grouping=True)
>> '12,345'
>>
>> In German usage of "." and "," is reversed, so:
>>
>>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "de_DE.UTF-8")
>> 'de_DE.UTF-8'
>>>>> locale.format("%d", 12345, grouping=True)
>> '12.345'
> 
> Does this locale-aware example only work on UNIX?

If you have Windows in mind: I don't know what it takes to get multiple 
locales on a Windows system, but for the default locale that you can specify 
with

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")

it should work.

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Insert comma in number? eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-03-06 15:39 -0800
  Re: Insert comma in number? ian douglas <iandouglas736@gmail.com> - 2013-03-06 15:51 -0800
  Re: Insert comma in number? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2013-03-06 16:07 -0800
  Re: Insert comma in number? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-03-06 20:28 -0500
  Re: Insert comma in number? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-03-07 08:55 +0100
  Re: Insert comma in number? Paul Volkov <capt-obvious@yandex.ru> - 2013-03-07 12:30 +0400
  Re: Insert comma in number? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-03-07 09:58 +0100

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