Rounding to two decimal places in Python 2.7?

Question

Using Python 2.7 how do I round my numbers to two decimal places rather than the 10 or so it gives?

print "financial return of outcome 1 =","$"+str(out1)

Answer 1

Use the built-in function round():

>>> round(1.2345,2)
1.23
>>> round(1.5145,2)
1.51
>>> round(1.679,2)
1.68

Or built-in function format():

>>> format(1.2345, '.2f')
'1.23'
>>> format(1.679, '.2f')
'1.68'

Or new style string formatting:

>>> "{:.2f}".format(1.2345)
'1.23
>>> "{:.2f}".format(1.679)
'1.68'

Or old style string formatting:

>>> "%.2f" % (1.679)
'1.68'

help on round:

>>> print round.__doc__
round(number[, ndigits]) -> floating point number

Round a number to a given precision in decimal digits (default 0 digits).
This always returns a floating point number.  Precision may be negative.