Peter Hansen wrote:
>> The target of the problems (my daughter) would prefer that the thousands
>> be delimited. Is there a string function that does this?
>
> You refer to something like putting a comma between groups of three
> digits, as in 1,000? This is locale-specific, and there's a "locale"
> module that should have what you need.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
'English_United Kingdom.1252'
>>> print locale.format("%d", 1000000, True)
1,000,000
>>> print locale.format("%.2f", 1000000, True)
1,000,000.00
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'fr')
'French_France.1252'
>>> print locale.format("%d", 1000000, True)
1 000 000
>>> print locale.format("%.2f", 1000000, True)
1 000 000,00
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