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Re: Formate a number with commas

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Date	2012-02-09 14:12 -0800
Subject	Re: Formate a number with commas
From	Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.5617.1328825558.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> Chris Rebert wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
>>>>>> 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'
>>
>> The latter requires Python 3.1+ and is courtesy PEP 378
>> (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0378/ ).
>
> I actually ran the above session in 2.7, so that should do, too.
>
> http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.7.html#pep-378-format-specifier-for-
> thousands-separator

Argh. The 2.7 docs say it was added in 2.7, but the 3.3a0 docs say it
was added in 3.1 (Guido's backporting time machine messes with
"causality").
Both statements are completely technically correct, but misleading
when not taken together.

Cheers,
Chris

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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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