String formatting (%)

[A. Lloyd Flanagan]

padhia at yahoo.com (P Adhia) wrote in message news:<3281a460.0404291301.3c3c647d at posting.google.com>...
> Another version of a more compact function would be,
> 
> def commafy(s):
>     return len(s) > 3 and "%s,%s" % (commafy(s[:-3]), s[-3:]) or s
> 
> Note that this function accepts string representation of an integer
> (without checks of course).
> 
> P Adhia

And it seeems to work beautifully.  Thanks, that's a great improvement.