[reportlab-users] French formatting of decimal for chart labelaxis

[Stevens, Ian]

Thanks. I didn't use locales as they are not properly set up on the server from which I'm running Reportlab. Howver, I just realised that labelTextFormat also accepts a function so I will be using that to my advantage.

Ian.


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> Ian,

> 

> If you have floating point numbers, you can use locale from 

> the python standard lib.

> 

> If you are using Decimals from decimal.Decimal, the most 

> effective way is to use pybabel. I tried to avoid another 

> dependencie, but everything else takes even more time. So: be 

> as wise as I am now, not as I was before, and use pybabel 

> from the start :)

> 

> Harald

> 

> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 19:54, Stevens, Ian 

> <IStevens at globeandmail.com> wrote:

> > Hi everyone.  I have a plot, specifying the label format as 

> a percent 

> > for the yValueAxis like so:

> >

> >     plot.yValueAxis.labelTextFormat = '%1.1f%%'

> >

> > That's fine for English decimals, eg. 3.5%, but now there's a 

> > requirement for French decimal format, eg. 3,5%.  How would 

> I acheive 

> > this using the labelTextFormat property?

> >

> > thanks,

> > Ian.

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