In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timothy Smith
wrote:
>>> hi there i need to set my locale so that when i output a number it's
>>> formatted with thousands grouped. [â]
>>
>> import locale
>> locale
>> locale.setlocale(LC_ALL, '')
>> locale.format('%.2f', 1000000, True)
>>
>>The `True` turns on grouping. Should work cross platform.
>
> thats ok, but how do i get it to group thousands with a , ? and thats
> would mean i'd have to run everything through a formatter before i
> displayed it :/ it'd be nicer if i could just select a proper locale
It uses the locale of the system. If *your* systems locale is configured
to use ',' as separator for grouping, then it should be used by
`locale.format()`.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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