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Format numbers in django templates

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Django's contributed humanize application does this:

{% load humanize %}
{{ my_num|intcomma }}

Be sure to add 'django.contrib.humanize' to your INSTALLED_APPS list in the settings.py file.


Building on other answers, to extend this to floats, you can do:

{% load humanize %}
{{ floatvalue|floatformat:2|intcomma }}

Documentation: floatformat, intcomma.


Regarding Ned Batchelder's solution, here it is with 2 decimal points and a dollar sign. This goes somewhere like my_app/templatetags/my_filters.py

from django import template
from django.contrib.humanize.templatetags.humanize import intcomma

register = template.Library()

def currency(dollars):
    dollars = round(float(dollars), 2)
    return "$%s%s" % (intcomma(int(dollars)), ("%0.2f" % dollars)[-3:])

register.filter('currency', currency)

Then you can

{% load my_filters %}
{{my_dollars | currency}}

Try adding the following line in settings.py:

USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = True

This should work.

Refer to documentation.


update at 2018-04-16:

There is also a python way to do this thing:

>>> '{:,}'.format(1000000)
'1,000,000'

If you don't want to get involved with locales here is a function that formats numbers:

def int_format(value, decimal_points=3, seperator=u'.'):
    value = str(value)
    if len(value) <= decimal_points:
        return value
    # say here we have value = '12345' and the default params above
    parts = []
    while value:
        parts.append(value[-decimal_points:])
        value = value[:-decimal_points]
    # now we should have parts = ['345', '12']
    parts.reverse()
    # and the return value should be u'12.345'
    return seperator.join(parts)

Creating a custom template filter from this function is trivial.


The humanize solution is fine if your website is in English. For other languages, you need another solution: I recommend using Babel. One solution is to create a custom template tag to display numbers properly. Here's how: just create the following file in your_project/your_app/templatetags/sexify.py:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django import template
from django.utils.translation import to_locale, get_language
from babel.numbers import format_number

register = template.Library()

def sexy_number(context, number, locale = None):
    if locale is None:
        locale = to_locale(get_language())
    return format_number(number, locale = locale)

register.simple_tag(takes_context=True)(sexy_number)

Then you can use this template tag in your templates like this:

{% load sexy_number from sexify %}

{% sexy_number 1234.56 %}
  • For an american user (locale en_US) this displays 1,234.56.
  • For a french user (locale fr_FR), this displays 1 234,56.
  • ...

Of course you can use variables instead:

{% sexy_number some_variable %}

Note: the context parameter is currently not used in my example, but I put it there to show that you can easily tweak this template tag to make it use anything that's in the template context.


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