Formatted Output - Floating Point Numbers

[Tyler Eaves]

David Marshall wrote:

> Im new to python and I was wondering if anybody could tell me how to
> modify the output to only obtaiu 2 decimal places.
> 
> the section of my program that needs modification
> 
> display.divide(57,7) # I only want 2 decimal places returned
> 
> I have a module called display and my function divide() returns the
> result of the two numbers divided. However, I only want this number to
> two decimal places.
> 
> I have tried: round(display.divide(57,7) [,2])
> But this results in an error message saying invalid syntax
> 
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated
Use the % operator.

IE: 

print "%.2f" % yourFloat

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Tyler Eaves