Format numbers in django templates

I'm trying to format numbers. Examples:

1     => 1
12    => 12
123   => 123
1234  => 1,234
12345 => 12,345

It strikes as a fairly common thing to do but I can't figure out which filter I'm supposed to use.

Edit: If you've a generic Python way to do this, I'm happy adding a formatted field in my model.

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.

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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.

The humanize app offers a nice and a quick way of formatting a number but if you need to use a separator different from the comma, it's simple to just reuse the code from the humanize app, replace the separator char, and create a custom filter. For example, use space as a separator:

@register.filter('intspace')
def intspace(value):
    """
    Converts an integer to a string containing spaces every three digits.
    For example, 3000 becomes '3 000' and 45000 becomes '45 000'.
    See django.contrib.humanize app
    """
    orig = force_unicode(value)
    new = re.sub("^(-?\d+)(\d{3})", '\g<1> \g<2>', orig)
    if orig == new:
        return new
    else:
        return intspace(new)

Slightly off topic:

I found this question while looking for a way to format a number as currency, like so:

$100
($50)  # negative numbers without '-' and in parens

I ended up doing:

{% if   var >= 0 %} ${{ var|stringformat:"d" }}
{% elif var <  0 %} $({{ var|stringformat:"d"|cut:"-" }})
{% endif %}

You could also do, e.g. {{ var|stringformat:"1.2f"|cut:"-" }} to display as $50.00 (with 2 decimal places if that's what you want.

Perhaps slightly on the hacky side, but maybe someone else will find it useful.

Based on muhuk answer I did this simple tag encapsulating python string.format method.

• Create a templatetags at your's application folder.

• Create a format.py file on it.

• Add this to it:

   from django import template
   
   register = template.Library()
   
   @register.filter(name='format')
   def format(value, fmt):
       return fmt.format(value)
  

• Load it in your template {% load format %}

• Use it. {{ some_value|format:"{:0.2f}" }}

Well I couldn't find a Django way, but I did find a python way from inside my model:

def format_price(self):
    import locale
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
    return locale.format('%d', self.price, True)

Not sure why this has not been mentioned, yet:

{% load l10n %}

{{ value|localize }}

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/i18n/formatting/#std:templatefilter-localize

You can also use this in your Django code (outside templates) by calling localize(number).

In case someone stumbles upon this, in Django 2.0.2 you can use this

Thousand separator. Be sure to read format localization as well.

Be aware that changing locale is process-wide and not thread safe (iow., can have side effects or can affect other code executed within the same process).

My proposition: check out the Babel package. Some means of integrating with Django templates are available.