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decimal places in a string
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I have a decimal value which I have calculated. I want to convert this to a string but only to a certain precision e.g. 2 decimal places. Can anybody tell me how to do this?
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I have a decimal value which I have calculated. I want to convert this to a string but only to a certain precision e.g. 2 decimal places. Can anybody tell me how to do this?
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The method presented by pepr does round the result. If you truly want to truncate the result, I think you'd have to do something like:
a = 17.5678
length_of_final_string = len('%.*f' % (number_of_decimal_places,
b = str(a)[:length_of_final_st
a = 17.5678
length_of_final_string = len('%.*f' % (number_of_decimal_places,
b = str(a)[:length_of_final_st
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