Look at http://code.google.com/p/python-money/source/browse/trunk/money/Money.py
Python-money does not use "locale" 2010/8/25 mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> > web2py cannot support locale because it is not thread safe, If one app > changes the locale it would change it for all apps. > > On Aug 25, 12:07 am, Bruno Rocha <rochacbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Actually, I am using these methods to work with money formating. > > > > some tries with python-money and works very wellhttp:// > code.google.com/p/python-money/ > > > > and sometimes > > > > import locale > > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,('pt_BR','UTF8'))>>> > locale.currency(1090909, grouping=True) > > > > 'R$ 1.090.909,00' > > > > So I a thinking about, how to include that as a DAL type? exactly in > > the same way web2py threats with Upload fields, we could have a > > datatype 'money' working with 'locale' > > > > db.define_table('product',Field('price','money',locale=('pt_BR','UTF8'))) > > or even declaring locale.setlocale() in the begining of the model file > > > > By now I am doing that with 'represent' or directly in views, but, > > Is there any chance to include that in web2py core? > -- http://rochacbruno.com.br