formatting a string with thousands separators

[SimonPalmer]

anyone recommend a way of formatting floats with comma separators?

e.g. 500000.00 -> 500,000.00

 

[Alan G Isaac]

anyone recommend a way of formatting floats with comma separators?

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/498181/

Alan Isaac

 

[James Mills]

Hi,

There is a much easier more consistent way:

cheers
James




http://code.activestate.com/recipes/498181/

Alan Isaac

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

There is a much easier more consistent way:

'en_AU.UTF-8'

doesn't work on all Python platforms, though:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "c:\python25\lib\locale.py", line 478, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

and is likely to give you somewhat unpredictable output if you use the
machine's actual locale:

>>> import os
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, os.environ["LANG"]) 'sv_SE.UTF-8'
>>> locale.format("%0.2f", 5000000, True)

'5000000,00'

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