Formatting question : printing numbers with thousands separators ?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Emile> But watch out for negative numbers:
    >>> print locale.format('%.3f',-345.6789,1)
    -,345.679

This might cure that woe:

    n = -345.6789
    sign = (n < 0.0) and "-" or ""
    print "%s%s" % (sign, locale.format('%.3f',abs(n),1))

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