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

If you actually want to change the number itself instead of only displaying it differently use format()

Format it to 2 decimal places:

format(value, '.2f')

example:

>>> format(5.00000, '.2f')
'5.00'