Sometimes, we want to do currency formatting in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to do currency formatting in Python.
How to do currency formatting in Python?
To do currency formatting in Python, we can use the locale module.
For instance, we write
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
s = locale.currency(5676766.56, grouping=True)
to call setlocale to set the locale.
Then we call locale.currency with the currency value and the grouping argument to return a string with the number formatted as a currency.
We set grouping to True so that the digits are grouped with thousand separators.
Conclusion
To do currency formatting in Python, we can use the locale module.
