[Tutor] PyCountry currency formatting woes

[Sithembewena Lloyd Dube]

Thank you all, babel works just fine. I also tried ccy, which isn't bad
either - except that it returns non-unicode currency letters for countries
in the Eurozone.


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote:
>
> > Thanks, i was actually getting the error information to update the post.
> > Apoligies to waste your time posting here - I could not find an
> > appropriate PyCountry discussion list and my next best bet seemed to be a
> > Python users' list.
> >
> > For those who care to look, the error is as follows (a concise example
> > from an interactive shell:
> >
> > import pycountry
> > country = pycountry.countries.get(alpha2='DE')
> > currency = pycountry.currencies.get(numeric=country.numeric)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "", line 1, in
> > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pycountry/db.py", line 83, in get
> > return self.indices[field][value]
> > KeyError: '276'
> >
> > The obvious issue here is that the pycountry.countries collection does
> not
> > contain a currency with a numeric of 276 (Germany's numeric) - yet it
> does
> > contain the Euro. Any ideas as to what the way around this may be?
>
> It looks like the development version of babel
>
>
> http://babel.pocoo.org/docs/api/numbers/#babel.numbers.get_territory_currencies
>
> can do what you want:
>
> $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 python
> Python 2.7.5+ (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:37:08)
> [GCC 4.8.1] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import babel.numbers as bn
> >>> bn.get_territory_currencies("DE")
> ['EUR']
> >>> print bn.format_currency(1.234, "EUR")
> €1.23
> >>> print bn.format_currency(1.234, "EUR", locale="DE")
> 1,23 €
> >>> import babel
> >>> babel.__version__
> '2.0-dev'
>
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-- 
Regards,
Sithu Lloyd Dube
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