Formatting numbers

[Andrew Henshaw]

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
news:%4KH6.58717$qc2.15144507 at typhoon.southeast.rr.com...

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>
> so this won't be useful in the general case.  One way might be:
>
> >>> def fmt(i):
> ...      bits = divmod(i, 100)
> ...      return "%d.%02d" % bits
> ...
> >>> fmt(12345)
> '123.45'
> >>> fmt(12340)
> '123.40'
> >>> fmt(12300)
> '123.00'
>
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This approach won't work correctly for negative values.
>>> fmt(-12345)
'-124.55'

Andy Henshaw