[Zope] Newbie: Simple Formatting floats in DTML

[Dieter Maurer]

Ashley Lloyd wrote at 2003-3-24 11:48 +0000:
 > I know this is a very simple question, but after searching the zope site and 
 > lists I still have not found an answer.
 > 
 > I need to format a great deal of floating point numbers for accountants to 
 > read, so need them using thousands_commas and if they are negative, display 
 > them in parentheses without the - sign.
 > eg 1004 = 1,004.00; -25436345.74 = (25,436,345.74)
 > 
 > I could write a python script to do this, but I thought there was probably a 
 > parameter, similar to thousands_commas, (like negative_brackets, say) that 
 > could to this for me.
 > 
 > Can anyone confirm this either way?

You need to write the script for the "negative" handling.

You can use the "thousands_comma" from "Products.PythonScripts.standard".


Dieter