Formatting numbers

[Erik Max Francis]

Daniel Klein wrote:

> This is almost embarrasing to have to ask this but I can't seem to
> find this
> information.
> 
> Given an integer, 12345, how to format this to 123.45 ?

I take it the integer represents cents, and you want to print it as
dollars and cents in the usual manner?

>>> print '%.2f' % (float(12345)/100)
123.45

Convert it to floating point, then divide by 100.  It's now in dollars.

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