float, '%.2f' help... please!

[Greg Ewing]

chibaA at TinterlogD.Tcom wrote:
> 
> I need to display a price -
> rounded up to the proper cent.  I was using this line:
> 
> print '%.2f' % (price+0.005)

Just use '%.2f' % price. The formatting operator already 
does rounding of its own:

>>> for i in xrange(0,11):
...  x = i * 0.001
...  print x, "%.2f" % x
... 
0.0 0.00
0.001 0.00
0.002 0.00
0.003 0.00
0.004 0.00
0.005 0.01
0.006 0.01
0.007 0.01
0.008 0.01
0.009 0.01
0.01 0.01

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