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

String Formatting:

a = 6.789809823
print('%.2f' %a)

OR

print ("{0:.2f}".format(a)) 

Round Function can be used:

print(round(a, 2))

Good thing about round() is that, we can store this result to another variable, and then use it for other purposes.

b = round(a, 2)
print(b)