Format a number as currency! I can't find any help on this simple problem.

2006-10-10 Thread Richard Kessler
I am relatively new to Python. Love it, but I find things that I can do easily in .NET and cannot find a way to do in Python. I need to format a number as currency, for example 12343.56 to $12,343.56. In C# all I need to do is decimal x = 12343.56 then x.ToString("$###,###.00"); I cannot find

Re: Reading a file using a UNC - help!

2006-09-26 Thread richard . kessler
Thanks very much all for respondingI got it working. As you indicated, I just had mixed up my escapes (//) with my \n. When I got the correct amount of backslashes and removed the linefeeds it worked great. Thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Reading a file using a UNC - help!

2006-09-26 Thread richard . kessler
quot; + x print str(cnt) + " total..." print str(cntNotFound) + " not found..." if __name__ == '__main__': MainProcess() Many thanks to anyone in advance to can tell me what I am doing wrong! Platform is XP with PythonWin. Richard Kessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

sys.path - stuff from nowhere?

2005-07-22 Thread Richard Kessler
Just build python 2.3.4 (needed for Zope and Plone). Trying to learn more about use the data in sys.path from importing. When I run Python at the command prompt, import sys and print sys.path I get stuff that makes no sense. For example, /usr/local/lib/python23.zip. Such a file does not even live