def format(number, decimal_sep, decimal_pos=None, grouping=0, thousand_sep='',
           force_grouping=False):
    use_grouping = settings.USE_L10N and settings.USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR
    use_grouping = use_grouping or force_grouping
    use_grouping = use_grouping and grouping > 0
    # Make the common case fast
    if isinstance(number, int) and not use_grouping and not decimal_pos:
        return mark_safe(six.text_type(number))
    # sign
    sign = ''
    str_number = six.text_type(number)
    if str_number[0] == '-':
        sign = '-'
        str_number = str_number[1:]
    # decimal part
    if '.' in str_number:
        int_part, dec_part = str_number.split('.')
        if decimal_pos is not None:
            dec_part = dec_part[:decimal_pos]
    else:
        int_part, dec_part = str_number, ''
    if decimal_pos is not None:
        dec_part = dec_part + ('0' * (decimal_pos - len(dec_part)))
    if dec_part:
        dec_part = decimal_sep + dec_part
    # grouping
    if use_grouping:
        int_part_gd = ''
        for cnt, digit in enumerate(int_part[::-1]):
            if cnt and not cnt % grouping:
                int_part_gd += thousand_sep
            int_part_gd += digit
        int_part = int_part_gd[::-1]
    return sign + int_part + dec_part
Gets a number (as a number or string), and returns it as a string,
dataset/ETHPy150Open AppScale/appscale/AppServer/lib/django-1.5/django/utils/numberformat.py/format