Formatting question : printing numbers with thousands separators ?

[Emile van Sebille]

use locale:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"")
'English_United States.1252'
>>> print locale.format('%.3f',12345.6789,1)
12,345.679

But watch out for negative numbers:

>>> print locale.format('%.3f',-345.6789,1)
-,345.679

HTH,

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Emile van Sebille
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"Fred Pacquier" <fredp at mygale.org.nospam> wrote in message
news:Xns910E8A4B714EBPaCmAnRDLM at 161.48.128.20...
>
> Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but I believe I did my homework
> (docs, FATS, Google etc.) and the answer still eludes me :
>
> how do I print 246814345 as 246,814,345 (or 246 814 345) ?
>
> TIA,
> fp
>
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