Ok, thanks very much for your reply. Kind regards Ashley From: Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> To: "Ashley Lloyd" <ashleylloyd@hotmail.com> CC: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie: Simple Formatting floats in DTML Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:55:35 +0100 Ashley Lloyd wrote at 2003-3-24 11:48 +0000:

I know this is a very simple question, but after searching the zope site and lists I still have not found an answer.

I need to format a great deal of floating point numbers for accountants to read, so need them using thousands_commas and if they are negative, display them in parentheses without the - sign. eg 1004 = 1,004.00; -25436345.74 = (25,436,345.74)

I could write a python script to do this, but I thought there was probably a parameter, similar to thousands_commas, (like negative_brackets, say) that could to this for me.

Can anyone confirm this either way?

You need to write the script for the "negative" handling. You can use the "thousands_comma" from "Products.PythonScripts.standard". Dieter _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://messenger.msn.co.uk