Format numbers in django templates

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I'm trying to format numbers. Examples:

1     => 1
12    => 12
123   => 123
1234  => 1,234
12345 => 12,345

It strikes as a fairly common thing to do but I can't figure out which filter I'm supposed to use.

Edit: If you've a generic Python way to do this, I'm happy adding a formatted field in my model.

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13 Answers

Django's contributed humanize application does this:

{% load humanize %}
{{ my_num|intcomma }}

Be sure to add 'django.contrib.humanize' to your INSTALLED_APPS list in the settings.py file.

user_143430

Regarding Ned Batchelder's solution, here it is with 2 decimal points and a dollar sign. This goes somewhere like my_app/templatetags/my_filters.py

from django import template
from django.contrib.humanize.templatetags.humanize import intcomma

register = template.Library()

def currency(dollars):
    dollars = round(float(dollars), 2)
    return "$%s%s" % (intcomma(int(dollars)), ("%0.2f" % dollars)[-3:])

register.filter('currency', currency)

Then you can

{% load my_filters %}
{{my_dollars | currency}}
user_2232680

If you don't want to get involved with locales here is a function that formats numbers:

def int_format(value, decimal_points=3, seperator=u'.'):
    value = str(value)
    if len(value) <= decimal_points:
        return value
    # say here we have value = '12345' and the default params above
    parts = []
    while value:
        parts.append(value[-decimal_points:])
        value = value[:-decimal_points]
    # now we should have parts = ['345', '12']
    parts.reverse()
    # and the return value should be u'12.345'
    return seperator.join(parts)

Creating a custom template filter from this function is trivial.

muhuk_421880

Well I couldn't find a Django way, but I did find a python way from inside my model:

def format_price(self):
    import locale
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
    return locale.format('%d', self.price, True)
user_128700

Be aware that changing locale is process-wide and not thread safe (iow., can have side effects or can affect other code executed within the same process).

My proposition: check out the Babel package. Some means of integrating with Django templates are available.

zgoda_121380
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