Keep trailing zeroes in python

Question

I am writing a class to represent money, and one issue I\'ve been running into is that \"1.50\" != str(1.50). str(1.50) equals 1.5, and alll of a sudden, POOF.

Answer 1

x = 1.500000

print '%.2f' % x
print '{:.3f}'.format(x)

result

1.50
1.500