[Tutor] Floats and rounding down

[Alan Gauld]

"Toon Pieton" <pytutmail at gmail.com> wrote

> Something like temp = '$' + str(round(x,2)) will make x = $1.537 
> read as
> $1.54. That's perfect. However, when x = 1.3, or x = 5.0, it will 
> display
> just that: $1.3 or $5. I don't like that - I wan't 1.30 and 5.00, 
> because
> that looks much more clean and homogeneous.
>
> Is there any - not to complicated - way to do that?

Yes, use string formatting.

>>> print "$%0.2f" % 1.3
$1.30

There are a wealth of other variations, worth studying in detail.

HTH,


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