I have three floats that I want to output as a 2 decimal places string.
amount1 = 0.1
amount2 = 0.0
amount3 = 1.87
I want to output all of them as a string that looks like 0.10, 0.00, and 1.87 respectively.
How do I do that efficiently?
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An alternative to directly formatting them is the locale stdlib module
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
'en_US.utf8'
>>> locale.currency(123.2342343234234234)
'$123.23'
>>> locale.currency(123.2342343234234234, '') # the second argument controls the symbol
'123.23'
This is nice because you can just set the locale to the users default as I do and then print in their conventions.
