How to print a number with localized thousands AND decimal separators?

Asked Dec 07 '20 at 19:46

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I expected to find an easy answer for this, but for some reason I did not. I need to print a number with a thousands separator (dot) and a decimal separator (comma). For example: if the input is 10000, the output should be 10.000,00.

If tried:

>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'pt_BR.UTF-8')
>> f'{num:,.2f}'
'10,000.00'
>> f'{num:n}'
'10.000'

And other variations, but I couldn't understand how to use the dot as the thousands separator and the comma as the decimal separator without using .replace(), for example.

Any suggestions?

asked Dec 07 '20 at 19:46

filipebarretto

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It probably depends on your underlying C functions. Look up the documentation for those. – Mark Ransom Dec 07 '20 at 19:50
You need a local that does what you want. use de_DE.UTF-8 or something like that. – Patrick Artner Dec 07 '20 at 19:54
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Thanks, @G.Anderson. The pt_BR works too, but I needed to use the locale.format_string() instead of f'{num:,.2f}'. Solved it =) – filipebarretto Dec 07 '20 at 19:55

How to print a number with localized thousands AND decimal separators?

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