Converting Float to Dollars and Cents

Question

First of all, I have tried this post (among others): Currency formatting in Python. It has no affect on my variable. My best guess is that it is because I am using Python

Answer 1

you said that:

`mony = float(1234.5)
print(money)      #output is 1234.5
'${:,.2f}'.format(money)
print(money)

did not work.... Have you coded exactly that way? This should work (see the little difference):

money = float(1234.5)      #next you used format without printing, nor affecting value of "money"
amountAsFormattedString = '${:,.2f}'.format(money)
print( amountAsFormattedString )