In python, is there an easy way to turn numbers with commas into an integer, and then back to numbers with commas?

Question

Let's say I have a number like this:

8,741 or 8,741,291

How can I use python to multiply that number by 2, and then put commas back into it? I want the python function to return

17,482 and 17,482,582, in a string format.

Answer 1

my_str = '1,255,000'

my_num = int(my_str.replace(',','')) #replace commas with nothing

this will return my_num = 1255000

result = my_num * 2

import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US')
my_str = locale.format("%d", result, grouping=True)

this will return->my_str='2,510,000'