Formatting numbers

[Rainer Deyke]

"Bjorn Pettersen" <BPettersen at NAREX.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.988759742.4786.python-list at python.org...
> Not sure what you're asking here... but the straightforward approach would
> be something like:
>
>    >>> str(12345/100.0)
>    '123.45'

You got lucky.  Never, ever use floating point if you want an exact number.
How about this:

def cents_to_string(i):
  s = '%03d' % i
  return s[:-2] + '.' + s[-2:]

print cents_to_string(12345) # Outputs '123.45'


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