Re: easy float question just eludes me


<nephish@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hullo all !
>
> 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)

At present, int/int truncates, so this won't do what you want. Use
int/100.0 to get float you want. For output, use % formating operator with
f specification.

>>> '%7.2f' % (50/100.0)
' 0.50'

Terry J. Reedy



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