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Re: Formate a number with commas

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: Formate a number with commas
Date 2012-02-09 21:39 +0100
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noydb wrote:

> How do you format a number to print with commas?
> 
> Some quick searching, i came up with:
> 
>>>> import locale
>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
>>>> locale.format('%d', 2348721, True)
> '2,348,721'
> 
> 
> I'm a perpetual novice, so just looking for better, slicker, more
> proper, pythonic ways to do this.

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
'de_DE.UTF-8'
>>> "{:n}".format(1234) # locale-aware
'1.234'
>>> "{:,d}".format(1234) # always a comma
'1,234'


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Formate a number with commas noydb <jenn.duerr@gmail.com> - 2012-02-09 12:08 -0800
  Re: Formate a number with commas Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-02-09 20:17 +0000
  Re: Formate a number with commas Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-09 21:39 +0100
  Re: Formate a number with commas Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-02-09 12:51 -0800
  Re: Formate a number with commas Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-02-09 22:13 +0100
  Re: Formate a number with commas Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-09 22:16 +0100
  Re: Formate a number with commas Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-02-09 14:12 -0800
  Re: Formate a number with commas John Posner <jjposner@optimum.net> - 2012-02-09 17:57 -0500
  Re: Formate a number with commas Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-02-09 22:06 -0500

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