[Tutor] floats

[Christopher Spears]

I have a float variable that is very long.

>>> float_a = 1.16667

However, I want to pass the value of float_a to float_b, but I want the float to be accurate to two decimal points.

>>> float_a = 1.16667
>>> print "%.2f" % float_a
1.17

I tried the following:

>>> float_b = "%.2f" % float_a
>>> float_b
'1.17'
>>> type(float_b)
<type 'str'>

This doesn't work because it yields a string.

Any suggestions?