[Zope] Formatting numbers with commas

[Ben Avery]

the perfect 'my first patch' project!

look in [installation dir]/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Var.py
and search for the line starting
def dollars_and_cents

I'm sure you can work it out from there :)


Schmidt, Allen J. wrote:
> I have not seen anything dealing with euros...others may have some idea.
> Keep the discussions on the list - then others can benefit and also offer
> other suggestions and answers.
> 
> Allen
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Guerrero [mailto:mguerrero@tachyon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 12:26 PM
> To: Allen
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Formatting numbers with commas
> 
> 
> It works like a charm.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> By the way,  since there is a dollars-and-cents format mask, do you know
> if there is a euros-and-cents format mask?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen [mailto:aschmidt@fredericksburg.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 4:45 PM
> To: Michael Guerrero
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Formatting numbers with commas
> 
> 
> <dtml-var totAmt fmt="dollars-and-cents"   thousands_commas>
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Guerrero" <mguerrero@tachyon.net>
> To: <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 7:10 PM
> Subject: [Zope] Formatting numbers with commas
> 
> 
> 
>>All,
>>
>>I'm working on my first zope project.  This seems like something simple to
> 
> do but I could not find the answers.
> 
>>I want a numeric value with commas for readability.
>>
>>For example, I want to display 1234567.89 as 1,234,567.89
>>
>>Is there a format mask for this?
>>
>>I tried <dtml-var totAmt fmt="dollars-and-cents"> but this only put the
> 
> '$' at the beginning.  Is there a suitable 'C format string' for this?
> 
>>I have the zope bible but it did not have what I was looking for.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Mike
>>
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