How do I shorten a number?

Asked Jan 02 '23 at 02:47

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How would I go about shortening a number like 1,000 into 1k, 1,000,000 into 1m, and so on in Python 3.X?

I have been experimenting with this line of code:

print("{:,}".format(1000)) # returns 1,000

I get errors when I place anything besides a comma there.

asked Jan 02 '23 at 02:47

vlone

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Short version: There's no built-in for this, so you either roll your own, or find an existing third party library that does it for you. – ShadowRanger Jan 02 '23 at 02:49
https://python-humanize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ – John Gordon Jan 02 '23 at 03:03
@John Specifically [`humanize.number.metric()`](https://python-humanize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/number/#humanize.number.metric)? – wjandrea Jan 02 '23 at 03:22

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