I know that theoretically digits in large integers can be grouped by thousands for better readability:
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>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')
'en_US.UTF-8'
>>> locale.format('%d', 1234567890, grouping=True)
'1,234,567,890'
>>> "{:n}".format(1234567890)
'1,234,567,890'
However, surprisingly, this won’t work for every locale:
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'pl_PL.UTF-8')
'pl_PL.UTF-8'
>>> locale.format('%d', 1234567890, grouping=True)
'1234567890'
>>> "{:n}".format(1234567890)
'1234567890'
Why are numbers not formatted? I find this strange. I would expect something like 1 234 567 890 being printed.
Per Format Specification Mini-Language, we can explicitly enforce two possible separators: a comma , and an underscore _. Sadly, a comma is inappropriate for Polish since it is used as a decimal point separator there, and a number like 1_234_567_890 would look oddly for most people.
Can we somehow enforce a non-breaking space being used as a thousands separator?
解决方案
The pl_PL locale thousands separator seems to be empty. I don't know if this accurately represents common usage in Poland, but Python is correctly formatting your number according to the rules of the pl_PL locale. This may be a bug in the locale files.
As far as I am aware, there is no option to manually specify the thousands separator and decimal mark characters.