Jinja Templates - Format a float as comma-separated currency

Question

I\'m trying to format a float as comma-separated currency. E.g. 543921.9354 becomes $543,921.94. I\'m using the format filter in Jinja t

Answer 1

Update: Using Jinja2 and Python 3, this worked quite nicely in the template without having to define any custom code:

{{ "${:,.2f}".format(543921.9354) }}

I'm not sure exactly what the dependencies are to have this work, but IMHO anyone else reading this answer would do well to at least try it before worrying about custom filters.