Currency format for floats?
Russell Wallace
rwallace at esatclear.ie
Fri Jun 2 11:21:04 EDT 2000
Joseph Santaniello wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an SQL query which I can format to give me a nice value like
> 23,342.40 which Python squashes into 23342.4 when I stick it into a
> list element. Is there a nice way to format floats so they look like
> (US) currency?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
I've written a formatting routine that does this. (For physical
quantities, it can also round to a specified number of significant
figures irrespective of where the decimal point is.) Let me know if you
want a copy.
Is there a central repository for these sort of things?
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