Format numbers as currency in Python

Question

I learn from Currency formatting in Python, use the locale module to format numbers as currency. For instance,

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-         


        

Answer 1

For reference (for those that are looking to format numbers similar to how you would format currency), you can use locale.format_string to format numbers

value = 123456789

import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE') 
print(locale.format_string('%.2f', value, True))

Would return

123.456.789,00

Answer 2

babel.numbers

In [22]: from babel.numbers import format_decimal
In [23]:  format_decimal(12345, locale='de_DE')
Out[23]: u'12.345'

In [24]: format_decimal(1.2345, locale='sv_SE')
Out[24]: u'1,234'

Or in your case format_currency:

In [7]: from babel.numbers import format_currency

In [8]: print format_currency(1099.98, 'USD', locale='en_US')
$1,099.98

In [9]: print format_currency(1099.98, 'USD', locale='es_CO')
1.099,98 US$

In [10]: print format_currency(1099.98, 'EUR', locale='de_DE')
1.099,98 €