Alan Gauld wrote: > Bear in mind that the use of commas is very much a > local thing. In some parts of the world periods are used > and a comma indicates a decimal point so > > 123,456 > > could be 123 thousand 456 or 123 point 456 depending > on where the reader is from. > > If that is important you might need to investigate a locale specific > way of defining the seperator.
In [7]: import locale In [9]: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') Out[9]: 'en_US.UTF-8' In [10]: locale.localeconv()['thousands_sep'] Out[10]: ',' Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
