Bugs item #1180002, was opened at 2005-04-10 01:28 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by andrewma You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1180002&group_id=5470
Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.4 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Remind Priority: 5 Submitted By: Andrew Ma (andrewma) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: locale.format question Initial Comment: locale.format is returning send("234,5") rather than send ("2,345") as I was expecting. Is this a bug? The example is modified from the Tutorial 11.1 Output Formatting -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'English_United States.1252') 'English_United States.1252' >>> data=2345 >>> locale.format('send("%d")', data, grouping = True) 'send("234,5")' >>> locale.format('%d', data, grouping = True) '2,345' >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Andrew Ma (andrewma) Date: 2005-04-10 14:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=621709 Berk, I followed your advice using 'send("%s")' % locale.format("%d", data, grouping=True) and solved my problem. Too bad there is no way to add your advice to the Python documentation. I am putting the status to remind, in case anybody (including me) wants to fix this later. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld) Date: 2005-04-10 05:51 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1188172 locale.format is implemented very "pragmatic". For example, you can't do locale.format('"1.%d."', 123) ("too many decimal points") though this should be supported. This is because it first formats the string with the normal "%" operation and then searches the whole string for decimal points to substitute. IMHO, format should first separate the % escapes from the format string, then format the numbers accordingly, and then use the % operation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1180002&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com