[Tutor] Comma Chameleon?

[Robert Nyborg]

I'm sure other people on the list have elegant examples for this, =20
but this is what I've used for a similar problem:

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import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'US')
print locale.format('%s','123456789',1)

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/RobertN

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From: "Curtis Larsen" <curtis.larsen@covance.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:20 PM
Subject: [Tutor] Comma Chameleon?


> <grin>
> I'm  probably missing it, but isn't there some sort of formatting
> option for use with the 'print' command that will automagically insert
> commas into a number?  If not, what's the best Pythonic method to do
> this?  (Note: I don't need currency or a +/-: I just want 123456789 to
> look like 123,456,789.)
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> Thanks!
> Curtis
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