Formatting

You can print Money object as follows:

>>> from moneyed.l10n import format_money
>>> format_money(Money(10, 'USD'), locale='en_US')
'$10.00'

Note that you need to specify locale or you will get the system default, which will probably not be what you want. For this reason, it is recommended to always provide the locale argument, and you may well want to add your own wrappers around this function to supply your project specific defaults.

This function is a thin wrapper around babel.numbers.format_currency. See those docs for other arguments that can be specified to control the formatting of the number. By default, Babel will apply definitions of how to format currencies that have been derived from the large CLDR database.

If you do str() on a Money object, you will get the same behaviour as format_money(), but with no options supplied, so you will get the system default locale.