formatting long numbers as strings in python

Question

What is an easy way in Python to format integers into strings representing thousands with K, and millions with M, and leaving just couple digits after comma?

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Answer 1

I don't know of any built-in capability like this, but here are a couple of list threads that may help:

http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Python/comp.lang.python/2005-09/msg03327.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-August/503417.html