Problem Formulation: Given an integer number. How to convert the integer to a string representation for printing or other use that has thousand separators?
Example:
- Given an integer number
1000000. - You want the string representation
'1,000,000'.
Method 1: f-Strings
Using the modern f-strings is, in my opinion, the most Pythonic solution to add commas as thousand-separators for all Python versions above 3.6: f'{1000000:,}'. The inner part within the curly brackets :, says to format the number and use commas as thousand separators.
>>> f'{1000000:,}'
'1,000,000'Method 2: string.format()
>>> '{:,}'.format(1000000)
'1,000,000'You use the format specification language expression '{:,}' to convert the integer number 1000000 to a string with commas as thousand separators.
- The outer part, the curly brackets
'{...}'says to use the number passed into theformat()function as a basis of the formatting process. - The inner part within the curly brackets
:,says to format the number and use commas as thousand separators.
Method 3: string.format() + string.replace() to Obtain Points as Thousand Separators
If you use points as a thousand-separator—for example in 1.000.000 as done in Europe—you can replace the commas in the comma-separated number using the suffix .replace(',', '.') in '{:,}'.format(x).replace(',','.') for any integer number x.
>>> '{:,}'.format(1000000).replace(',','.')
'1.000.000'A similar approach can be done with f-strings:
>>> f'{1000000:,}'.replace(',','.')
'1.000.000'Method 4: format()
An alternative way to add commas as thousand separators is to use the ',d' formatting syntax in the format() function.
>>> format(1000000, ',d') '1,000,000'
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1823058/how-to-print-number-with-commas-as-thousands-separators
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