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Adding Commas To Digits

08.18.2005

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        Copy from Marek Baczynski's code here
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/439357

def group(n, sep = ','):
    s = str(n)[::-1]
    groups = []
    i = 0
    while i < len(s):
        groups.append(s[i:i+3])
        i += 3
    return sep.join(groups)[::-1]

#>>> group(42424242)
#'42,424,242'

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Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2012/05/07 - 2:14pm

Why not: def group(n, sep = ','): s = str(n) out = '' while len(s) > 3: out = sep + s[-3:] + out s = s[:-3] return s + out ?? Less code and a bit clearer I think...