[Tutor] PyCountry currency formatting woes

[Mark Lawrence]

On 04/05/2014 21:25, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a function which accepts an alpha2 country code and a price
> string, where the aim is to get the country's currency and use the
> currency.letter property of that currency to format the supplied price
> string.
>
> The above works fine so far - yet it falls over when called with Germany
> as the country as follows:
>
> currency = pycountry.currencies.get(numeric=country.numeric)
>
> The function implementation is as follows:
>
> def formatPrice(self, alpha2CountryCode, price):
>          """
>          @param alpha2CountryCode: The 2-character country code for
> which to format the price value
>          @param price: The price value as a string
>          @return: A string representing the formatted monetary value for
> this country for this price.
>
>          #Get country by alpha2 code
>          country = pc.countries.get(alpha2=alpha2CountryCode.upper())
>
>          #Get currency by country's numeric and format price
>          currency = pc.currencies.get(numeric=country.numeric)
>          letter = currency.letter
>          formattedCurrency = "%s %s" % (letter, price)
>
>          return formattedCurrency
>
> Any ideas as to what the issue may be?
>
> Thanks :)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Sithu Lloyd Dube
>

Sorry but this list is aimed at people learning the core Python 
language, not a third party module, which I've never heard of 
incidentally.  You might get lucky if some regular here has used the 
package, but even then "it falls over" isn't too helpful.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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