Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Tue Mar 22 19:21:05 EST 2005

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In <mailman.746.1111534956.1799.python-list at python.org>, Timothy Smith
wrote:

> hi there i need to set my locale so that when i output a number it's 
> formatted with thousands grouped. the problem i've found is there 
> doesn't seem to be very good cross platform support for locales, even 
> between unix's it's horrid.

Have you tried this::

  import locale
  locale
  locale.setlocale(LC_ALL, '')
  locale.format('%.2f', 1000000, True)

The `True` turns on grouping.  Should work cross platform.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

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