[Zope] Newbie: Simple Formatting floats in DTML

[Ashley Lloyd]

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?

TIA
Ashley


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