Display a float with two decimal places in Python

Question

I have a function taking float arguments (generally integers or decimals with one significant digit), and I need to output the values in a string with two decimal places (5

Answer 1

You could use the string formatting operator for that:

>>> '%.2f' % 1.234
'1.23'
>>> '%.2f' % 5.0
'5.00'

The result of the operator is a string, so you can store it in a variable, print etc.