Thousand Seperator

[Shane Geiger]

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/python/lib/decimal-recipes.html 



Eddie Corns wrote:
> ewanfisher at gmail.com writes:
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>> I'm trying to find some code that will turn:
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>> 100 -> 100
>> 1000 -> 1,000
>> 1000000 -> 1,000,000
>> -1000 -> -1,000
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>> I know that can be done using a regular expression. In Perl I would do
>> something like:
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>> sub thousand {
>>        $number = reverse $_[0];
>>        $number =~ s/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)(?!d*\.)/$1,/g;
>>        return scalar reverse $number;
>> }
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>> But I cannot find how to do this in Python.
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> Look at the locale module.  If you're producing the numbers yourself then they
> get printed in that format otherwise you can convert them to numbers first.
>
> Eddie
>
>   


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