Thousand Seperator

[ewanfisher@gmail.com]

I'm trying to find some code that will turn:

100 -100
1000 -1,000
1000000 -1,000,000
-1000 --1,000

I know that can be done using a regular expression. In Perl I would do
something like:

sub thousand {
$number = reverse $_[0];
$number =~ s/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)( ?!d*\.)/$1,/g;
return scalar reverse $number;
}

But I cannot find how to do this in Python.

Thanks,
Ewan

[Paul Rubin]

Re: Thousand Seperator

ewanfisher@gmai l.com writes:

100 -100
1000 -1,000
1000000 -1,000,000
-1000 --1,000

def sep(n):
if n<0: return '-' + sep(-n)
if n<1000: return str(n)
return '%s,%03d' % (sep(n//1000), n%1000)

[Eddie Corns]

Re: Thousand Seperator

ewanfisher@gmai l.com writes:

>I'm trying to find some code that will turn:

>100 -100
>1000 -1,000
>1000000 -1,000,000
>-1000 --1,000

>I know that can be done using a regular expression. In Perl I would do
>something like:

>sub thousand {
$number = reverse $_[0];
$number =~ s/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)( ?!d*\.)/$1,/g;
return scalar reverse $number;
>}

>But I cannot find how to do this in Python.

Look at the locale module. If you're producing the numbers yourself then they
get printed in that format otherwise you can convert them to numbers first.

Eddie

[Shane Geiger]

Re: Thousand Seperator

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/python/lib/decimal-recipes.html

Eddie Corns wrote:

ewanfisher@gmai l.com writes:
>
>

>I'm trying to find some code that will turn:
>>

>
>

>100 -100
>1000 -1,000
>1000000 -1,000,000
>-1000 --1,000
>>

>
>

>I know that can be done using a regular expression. In Perl I would do
>something like:
>>

>
>

>sub thousand {
> $number = reverse $_[0];
> $number =~ s/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)( ?!d*\.)/$1,/g;
> return scalar reverse $number;
>}
>>

>
>

>But I cannot find how to do this in Python.
>>

>
Look at the locale module. If you're producing the numbers yourself then they
get printed in that format otherwise you can convert them to numbers first.
>
Eddie
>
>

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[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

Re: Thousand Seperator

-On [20080314 18:11], ewanfisher@gmai l.com (ewanfisher@gma il.com) wrote:

>But I cannot find how to do this in Python.

I am not sure of your goal, but if you need this for localization purposes,
look at Babel (http://babel.edgewall.org/). In particular

http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/ApiDocs/babel.numbers

We make use of the Unicode CLDR information to provide locale-specific
formatting.

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Re: Thousand Seperator

Eddie Corns wrote:

ewanfisher@gmai l.com writes:
>

>I'm trying to find some code that will turn:

>

>100 -100
>1000 -1,000
>1000000 -1,000,000
>-1000 --1,000

>

>I know that can be done using a regular expression. In Perl I would do
>something like:

>

>sub thousand {
> $number = reverse $_[0];
> $number =~ s/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)( ?!d*\.)/$1,/g;
> return scalar reverse $number;
>}

>

>But I cannot find how to do this in Python.

>
Look at the locale module. If you're producing the numbers yourself then they
get printed in that format otherwise you can convert them to numbers first.

Specifically:

import locale
locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , '')
for trial in (100, 1000, 1000000, -1000):
print trial, locale.format(" %0f", trial, True)

If that results in no comma separators, then you may need to set the
locale specifically, such as:

>>locale.setloc ale(locale.LC_A LL, 'en_us')

'en_us'

>>for trial in (100, 1000, 100000, -1000):

.... print trial, locale.format(" %.0f", trial, True)
....
100 100
1000 1,000
100000 100,000
-1000 -1,000

Paul