In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timothy Smith wrote: > hi there i need to set my locale so that when i output a number it's > formatted with thousands grouped. the problem i've found is there > doesn't seem to be very good cross platform support for locales, even > between unix's it's horrid.
Have you tried this:: import locale locale locale.setlocale(LC_ALL, '') locale.format('%.2f', 1000000, True) The `True` turns on grouping. Should work cross platform. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list