LC_MONETARY formatting

[Colin Fox]

Hi, all.

This feels like a stupid question to me, but I've scoured the Internet
(yes, the whole thing! :) and I can't find a single example of using the
locale module to format money.

So I have:

cash = 12345.6

and the locale is set to "en_CA" (though that doesn't matter, really).

I would like to be able to print "$12,345.60"

Is there a format string, or function, or *something* that will take
advantage of the monetary formatting info in the locale object? Or did
they provide all that formatting information just so that I have to write
it myself?

The only docs on using the locale object contain a single example of
comparing two strings. It would sure be nice to see examples of each of
the locale features.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks,
  cf