formatting a number as percentage

[Hans Mulder]

Günther Dietrich wrote:
> vsoler <vicente.soler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to print .7 as 70%
>> I've tried:
>>
>> print format(.7,'%%')
>> .7.format('%%')
>>
>> but neither works. I don't know what the syntax is...
> 
> Did you try this:
> 
>>>> print('%d%%' % (0.7 * 100))
> 70%

That method will always round down; TomF's method will round to
the nearest whole number:

 >>> print "%d%%" % (0.698 * 100)
69%
 >>> print "{0:.0%}".format(.698)
70%

Only the OP knows which one is more appropriate for his use case.

Hope this helps,

-- HansM