insert thousands separators

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Marcus Bergmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how can I insert thousands separators into an integer or a string, e.g. 
> 1000000 to 1.000.000?

import locale

#this sets locale automatically (according to LC_ALL environment)
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'')

print locale.format("%d",1000000,1)

Pádraig.