noydb wrote:
> How do you format a number to print with commas?
>
> Some quick searching, i came up with:
>
>>>> import locale
>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
>>>> locale.format('%d', 2348721, True)
> '2,348,721'
>
>
> I'm a perpetual novice, so just looking for better, slicker, more
> proper, pythonic ways to do this.
>>> 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'
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