Question

Is there a built in easy way to convert a string into an integer, with the format of the string being xxx,yyy,zzz? like 325,121,565 instead of 325121565. I know I can build a function that does that but I was wondering if someone else has already done so that I wont reinvent the wheel.

Answer 1

Set an appropriate locale, then use locale.atoi().

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'en_US')
'en_US'
>>> locale.atoi('123,456,789')
123456789