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Couple functions I need, assuming they exist?

Charles Krug cdkrug at worldnet.att.net
Mon Jun 20 13:17:18 EDT 2005 
On 20 Jun 2005 15:51:07 GMT, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
>>> The target of the problems (my daughter) would prefer that the thousands
>>> be delimited.  Is there a string function that does this?
>> 
>> You refer to something like putting a comma between groups of three 
>> digits, as in 1,000?  This is locale-specific, and there's a "locale" 
>> module that should have what you need.
> 
>>>> import locale
>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> 'English_United Kingdom.1252'
>>>> print locale.format("%d", 1000000, True)
> 1,000,000

Perfect!

Thanks.

Sometimes "hard part" is figuring out which package already does the
thing I need done.


Charles.
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