printing float as formatted dollars

[Tim]

"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:lsmdnXfkzI1VwwjdRVn-vw at powergate.ca...
> Tim wrote:
>
> > Is there a simple way to output float values as formatted dollar
amounts?
> > i.e. 127379.42  as  $127,379.42
>
> The following recent thread would probably give you several ways that
> fit the "simple" requirement, provided you are really interested in
> writing something that has no internationalization support and ignores
> the local conventions.  (If you want i18n, use the locale module.)
>
>
http://groups.google.ca/groups?&threadm=e567c03a.0404280035.79d0d973%40posting.google.com
>
> -Peter

Peter,
Thanks for the referral to the recent post.  I'm only a few months into
Python and, to be perfectly honest, I've been shying away from the chapters
in my books regarding the re module.  This was helpful.

Thanks,
Tim