Chris Rebert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>>>>> import locale >>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") >> 'de_DE.UTF-8' >>>>> "{:n}".format(1234) # locale-aware >> '1.234' >>>>> "{:,d}".format(1234) # always a comma >> '1,234' > > The latter requires Python 3.1+ and is courtesy PEP 378 > (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0378/ ). I actually ran the above session in 2.7, so that should do, too. http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.7.html#pep-378-format-specifier-for- thousands-separator -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list