From 832176181cd26f3ebdbedec03aa9a2fffe963553 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: j <0x006A@0x2620.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:23:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add oxutils.formatCurrency

---
 oxutils/format.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/oxutils/format.py b/oxutils/format.py
index 252db09..bfb2ca7 100644
--- a/oxutils/format.py
+++ b/oxutils/format.py
@@ -112,6 +112,20 @@ def formatBytes(number):
 def formatPixels(number):
     return formatNumber(number, 'pixel', 'px')
 
+def formatCurrency(amount, currency="$"):
+  if amount:
+    temp = "%.2f" % amount
+    profile=re.compile(r"(\d)(\d\d\d[.,])")
+    while 1:
+      temp, count = re.subn(profile,r"\1,\2",temp)
+      if not count:
+        break
+    if temp.startswith('-'):
+       return "-"+ currency + temp[1:-3]
+    return currency + temp[:-3]
+  else:
+    return ""
+
 def plural(amount, unit, plural='s'):
     '''
     >>> plural(1, 'unit')