How to show percentage

[Terry Hancock]

On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:51 pm, Sen-Lung Chen wrote:
> Dear All:
>  I have a question of show percentage.
> For example ,I want to show the percentage of 1/3 = 33.33%
> 
>  I use the 1*100/3 = 33
> it is 33 not 33.33 , how to show the 33.33 %
>  Thanks

In addition to needing a floating point value as other 
posters have noted, you're going to need a format string,
e.g.:
>>> print "%5.2f%%" % (100.0/3)
33.33%

Note the need to escape "%" as it is normally the format
specifier character.

Cheers,
Terry

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