"John Nagle" <na...@animats.com> wrote: > Yes. In COBOL, one writes > > PICTURE $999,999,999.99 > > which is is way ahead of most of the later approaches.
That was fixed width. For zero suppression: PIC $$$$,$$$,$99.99 This will format 1000 as $1,000.00 For fixed width zero suppression: PIC $ZZZ,ZZZ,Z99.99 gives a fixed width field - $ 1,000.00 with a fixed width font, this will line the column up, so that the decimals are under each other. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
