easy float question just eludes me

Simon Brunning simon.brunning at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 09:48:27 EDT 2005


On 28 Jul 2005 06:39:32 -0700, nephish at xit.net <nephish at xit.net> wrote:
> i have a real easy one here that isn't in my book.
> i have a int number that i want to divide by 100 and display to two
> decimal places.
> 
> like this float(int(Var)/100)
> but i need it to display the .00 even if it does not have a .00 value
> like this
> if Var is 50, i need to display .50 instead of just .5

>>> import decimal as dec
>>> dec.Decimal('250.00')/100
Decimal("2.50")

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Simon B,
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