>  I want to format values to the german form eg. 1.034,56 but
>  locale.format() doesn't work for me.

seems to work here


> >> import decimal, locale
> >> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'mk_MK.UTF-8')
'mk_MK.UTF-8'
> >> locale.localeconv()['grouping']
[3, 3, 0]
> >> locale.localeconv()['thousands_sep']
' '
> >> locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']
','
> >> locale.format('%f', 1034.56,True)
'1 034,560000'
> >> locale.format('%d', 1034.56,True)
'1 034'



ps.
you can copy/paste the above in .txt file and then run/test it with:
python -m doctest -v  check.txt


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