howto remove the thousand separator

[Duncan Booth]

"pyth0n3r" <pyth0n3r at gmail.com> wrote:

> I came across a problem that when i deal with int data with ',' as
> thousand separator, such as 12,916, i can not change it into int() or
> float(). How can i remove the comma in int data?
> Any reply will be appreciated!!
> 

Parse it using the locale module, just be sure to set the correct locale 
first:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
'English_United Kingdom.1252'
>>> locale.atoi('1,000')
1000
>>> locale.atof('1,000')
1000.0
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'French_France')
'French_France.1252'
>>> locale.atof('1,000')
1.0


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