Pretty Integers

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Lindstrom Greg - glinds [mailto:Greg.Lindstrom at acxiom.com] 
> 
> I would like to add commas to the integers I am writing (for 
> example: 12345678 --> 12,345,678).  I have a fairly ugly 
> method that relies heavily upon mods, but am convinced there 
> must be a "pretty" way to do it.  How would you go about this task?
> 
> Thanks, everyone!

How about:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
'English_United States.1252'
>>> locale.format('%d', 12345678, 3)
'12,345,678'
>>>

-- bjorn