[ python-Bugs-1180002 ] locale.format question

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Bugs item #1180002, was opened at 2005-04-10 01:28
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Remind
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Andrew Ma (andrewma)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: locale.format question

Initial Comment:
locale.format is returning send("234,5") rather than send
("2,345") as I was expecting.  Is this a bug?
The example is modified from the Tutorial 11.1 Output 
Formatting 

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Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 
32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'English_United 
States.1252')
'English_United States.1252'
>>> data=2345
>>> locale.format('send("%d")', data, grouping = True)
'send("234,5")'
>>> locale.format('%d', data, grouping = True)
'2,345'
>>>



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>Comment By: Andrew Ma (andrewma)
Date: 2005-04-10 14:55

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Berk,
I followed your advice using
'send("%s")'  %  locale.format("%d", data, grouping=True)
and solved my problem.   Too bad there is no way to add your 
advice to the Python documentation.  I am putting the status 
to remind, in case anybody (including me) wants to fix this 
later.

Thanks. 


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Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-04-10 05:51

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locale.format is implemented very "pragmatic". For example,
you can't do

locale.format('"1.%d."', 123)

("too many decimal points") though this should be supported.
This is because it first formats the string with the normal
"%" operation and then searches the whole string for decimal
points to substitute.

IMHO, format should first separate the % escapes from the
format string, then format the numbers accordingly, and then
use the % operation.

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