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