locale, format monetary values
deelan
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Mon Apr 17 08:25:54 EDT 2006
Rares Vernica wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can I use locale to format monetary values? If yes, how? If no, is there
> something I can use?
>
> E.g.,
> I have 10000 and I want to get "$10,000".
try something like:
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en-US")
'English_United States.1252'
>>> locale.format("%f", 10000, True)
'10,000.000000'
>>> locale.format("$%.2f", 10000, True)
'$10,000.00'
bye.
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