On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Nathan Pinno wrote:
> Is there anyway to set how many numbers are used after the decimal in
> floating numbers? It would be nice if the answer could be rounded to 2
> decimal spots, instead of the ten millionths spot.
Hi Nathan,
If you want to print a number with two decimal places, you may want to use
a string formatting operator. String Formatting allows us to format
numbers into particular ways. For example:
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def to_ten_digits(n):
"""Given a number n, returns a string representation of that
number with ten digits. We pad empty spaces with zero."""
return "%010f" % n
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shows that we can turn numbers into ten-digit strings:
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>>> to_ten_digits(42)
'042.000000'
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This is not what you're asking for, exactly, but take a look at:
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/typesseq-strings.html
http://www.python.org/doc/tut/node9.html#SECTION009100000000000000000
for more information on String Formatting: you can do floating point
formatting with it too.
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