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How do I format numbers with thousand separators as Indian style?

The Indian number systems uses lakhs (lacs) and crores. How do I format numbers with thousand separators as Indian style? 1000 I want to display as 1,000 and so on to 1,00,000:

Number Format as
10 10
100 100
1000 1,000
10000 10,000
100000 1,00,000
1000000 10,00,000
10000000 1,00,00,000
100000000 10,00,00,000
1000000000 1,00,00,00,000
10000000000 10,00,00,00,000

I want to do this in python.

Solution

  • I recognize this way of separating numbers as the one used in India. So I think you can get what you want using locale:

    import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'hi_IN')
locale.format_string("%d", 10000000000, grouping=True)

    The exact locale to use may be different on your system; try locale -a | grep IN to get a list of Indian locales you have installed.