Money formatting

[Dan Bishop]

Tonguc Yumruk <tongucyumruk at member.fsf.org> wrote in message news:<mailman.396.1088932913.27577.python-list at python.org>...
> I'm trying to format an integer as money. As far as i can see there is
> no strfmon() in python. I also tried the
> locale.format("%.2f",100000000,True) way but it does not even made the
> grouping work. I tried to hack some locale-related files (especially
> /usr/share/i18n/locales/tr TR), but it dosn't worked either. Of course I
> can use brute force and make grouping and money formatting to work by
> hand but I think it's not a very pythonic way. Are there any library
> functions which I'm missing? Or will I have to use brute force?

I get the same problem:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.format('%.2f', 1234.56, True)
'1234.56'

But this seems to fix it:

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'en_US.ISO8859-1')
'en_US.ISO8859-1'
>>> locale.format('%.2f', 1234.56, True)
'1,234.56'