On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> Chris Rebert wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>>>>>> import locale
>>>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
>>> 'de_DE.UTF-8'
>>>>>> "{:n}".format(1234) # locale-aware
>>> '1.234'
>>>>>> "{:,d}".format(1234) # always a comma
>>> '1,234'
>>
>> The latter requires Python 3.1+ and is courtesy PEP 378
>> (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0378/ ).
>
> I actually ran the above session in 2.7, so that should do, too.
>
> http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.7.html#pep-378-format-specifier-for-
> thousands-separatorArgh. The 2.7 docs say it was added in 2.7, but the 3.3a0 docs say it was added in 3.1 (Guido's backporting time machine messes with "causality"). Both statements are completely technically correct, but misleading when not taken together. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
