Templetor: is there a way i could use python locale or something?

[Florian Lagg]

Hi, 

I really enjoy the template engine, I use it some time now for web output, and I try to use it to edit the xml-content of OpenOffice odt files (to be able to design and generate pdf's, I'll open source this later.). 

What I really would need, is to do some formatting I need to do in the python statements in the template.

Is there any way I could do something like that?
('%.2f' % 1.2333333).replace('.', ',')

or something like:

import locale

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'FR')

locale.format('%.2f', 1.2333333)

Thanks in advance for your help, hope we have a solution to this! 

Yours Florian.

[Andrey Kuzmin]

You may define your own function and pass them as template globals.

template_globals = {

    "format_float":  lambda x:  ('%.2f' % x).replace('.', ',')

}

render = template.render(your_template_dir, globals=template_globals, base='layout')

Then in your templates you'll be able to use $format_float(x)