cross platform use of set locale

[Timothy Smith]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:

>In <mailman.746.1111534956.1799.python-list at python.org>, Timothy Smith
>wrote:
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>>hi there i need to set my locale so that when i output a number it's 
>>formatted with thousands grouped. the problem i've found is there 
>>doesn't seem to be very good cross platform support for locales, even 
>>between unix's it's horrid.
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>Have you tried this::
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>  import locale
>  locale
>  locale.setlocale(LC_ALL, '')
>  locale.format('%.2f', 1000000, True)
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>The `True` turns on grouping.  Should work cross platform.
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>Ciao,
>	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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thats ok, but how do i get it to group thousands with a , ?
and thats would mean i'd have to run everything through a formatter 
before i displayed it :/ it'd be nicer if i could just select a proper 
locale