[BangPypers] Need Help : Setting Floating Precision Point as 2 in Python

[Noufal Ibrahim]

(I posted this to ChennaiPy but this list is wider so I'm reposting
it). 

Arulalan T <arulalant at gmail.com> writes:

> Dear All,
>
> I need one help.
>
> In python, I need to set the floating point precision as 2.
>
> I am getting the following output in python while adding two float nos.


Often, you *need* to only display the result of your calculations with n
decimal places. Is yours such a situation? If so, forget the number of
decimal points during the computation and when printing format it as
appropriate ("%.2f").

If you genuinely want to work without the floating point problem that
you've indicated in your email, consider using the decimal module

>>> import decimal
>>> a = decimal.Decimal("79.73")
>>> b = decimal.Decimal("0.5")
>>> str(a + b)
'80.23'

[...]

Can you tell us *why* this inaccuracy is hurting you? 


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