Thank you all, babel works just fine. I also tried ccy, which isn't bad either - except that it returns non-unicode currency letters for countries in the Eurozone.
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Peter Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > > > Thanks, i was actually getting the error information to update the post. > > Apoligies to waste your time posting here - I could not find an > > appropriate PyCountry discussion list and my next best bet seemed to be a > > Python users' list. > > > > For those who care to look, the error is as follows (a concise example > > from an interactive shell: > > > > import pycountry > > country = pycountry.countries.get(alpha2='DE') > > currency = pycountry.currencies.get(numeric=country.numeric) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "", line 1, in > > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pycountry/db.py", line 83, in get > > return self.indices[field][value] > > KeyError: '276' > > > > The obvious issue here is that the pycountry.countries collection does > not > > contain a currency with a numeric of 276 (Germany's numeric) - yet it > does > > contain the Euro. Any ideas as to what the way around this may be? > > It looks like the development version of babel > > > http://babel.pocoo.org/docs/api/numbers/#babel.numbers.get_territory_currencies > > can do what you want: > > $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 python > Python 2.7.5+ (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:37:08) > [GCC 4.8.1] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import babel.numbers as bn > >>> bn.get_territory_currencies("DE") > ['EUR'] > >>> print bn.format_currency(1.234, "EUR") > €1.23 > >>> print bn.format_currency(1.234, "EUR", locale="DE") > 1,23 € > >>> import babel > >>> babel.__version__ > '2.0-dev' > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Regards, Sithu Lloyd Dube
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