Formatting question : printing numbers with thousands separators ?
Fred Pacquier
fredp at mygale.org.nospam
Fri Aug 31 10:47:20 EDT 2001
gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson Kurz) said :
> On 31 Aug 2001 11:33:52 GMT, Fred Pacquier <fredp at mygale.org.nospam>
> wrote:
>
>>how do I print 246814345 as 246,814,345 (or 246 814 345) ?
>
> def f(x):
> s,i = list(str(x)),3
> while i < len(s):
> s.insert(len(s)-i,',')
> i += 4
> return ''.join(s)
Well, before rolling my own buggy routine I wanted to check I wasn't
overlooking something ready-made "à la sprintf". Turns out I wasn't looking
in the right place -- as thousands separators are country-dependent, the
"locale" module is the way to go...
Thanks,
fp
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