Peter Otten wrote: > Last not least there's the option to employ locale-aware formatting:
Not quite last ... there's the mind-bending regular expression route: import re re.sub(r"(?<=\d)(?=(\d\d\d)+$)", ",", "12345678") # 12,345,678 re.sub(r"(?<=\d)(?=(\d\d\d)+$)", ",", "-54321") # -54,321 -John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
