In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, abcd wrote:
> if i have a number, say the size of a file, is there an easy way to
> output it so that it includes commas?
>
> for example:
>
> 1890284
>
> would be:
>
> 1,890,284
I think this comes close:
In [23]: import locale
In [24]: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
Out[24]: 'en_US.UTF-8'
In [25]: locale.format('%d', 1890284, True)
Out[25]: '1,890,284'
It's not always commas but whatever character is used to group thousands
in the active locale.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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