how to convert a randomly chosen number into a currency?

Question

for my lottery i have a jackpot prize randomly chosen from 100,000 after its randomly chosen it goes to numbers how would i put it to be a currency? here is my jackpot code.

prize=random.randrange(100000)

print "welcome to the lottery!!!!"
time.sleep(1)
name=raw_input("What is your name?")
print name
print "welcome to the game show where you can win thousands of pounds by just ghuesing a number!!"
number=random.randrange(100)
while True:
    ghuess=input("state a number between 1-100")
    if ghuess>number:
        print "too high try again!"
    elif ghuess<number:
        print "too low try again!"
    else:
        # Jackpot, exit the loop.
        break
print "well done! ghuess you have won.."
time.sleep(1)
print "3"
time.sleep(1)
print "2"
time.sleep(1)
print "1"
time.sleep(1)
print prize

By "put it to be currency" do you mean print it with two decimals, commas between the thousands, etc? If so, please see here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/320929/currency-formatting-in-python?rq=1 — Cory Kramer, Apr 03 '14 at 11:53
You can see this [post](http://stackoverflow.com/a/320951/1982962) or this [post](http://stackoverflow.com/a/8851191/1982962) it will solve the problem. — Kobi K, Apr 03 '14 at 11:58

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 03 '14 at 12:06

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You can easily do that with string formatting as follows:

>>> print "${:,.2f}".format(prize)

Example:

>>> prize = 12345678   #just an example
>>> print "${:,.2f}".format(prize)
$12,345,678.00

Hope that helps.

answered Apr 03 '14 at 12:06

sshashank124

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 03 '14 at 12:06

If all you do is print the prize:

In [77]: print "{:,.2f}£".format(random.randrange(100000))
26,467.00£

Or if you want the currency symbol in the front

In [78]: print "£{:,.2f}".format(random.randrange(100000))
£80,244.00

If you already have the prize variable:

In [80]: print "£{:,.2f}".format(prize)
£64,058.00

Here's a good explanation of the format specification.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 03 '14 at 11:55

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Just multiple the random value by 0.01. Like below:

prize=random.randrange(100000) * 0.01

answered Apr 03 '14 at 11:55

Zini

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That still lacks the currency symbol (if that should be dynamic) as well as the comma separation every three digits. – Cory Kramer Apr 03 '14 at 11:56

how to convert a randomly chosen number into a currency?

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