Python, print all floats to 2 decimal places in output

python floating-point string-formatting
Omar picture Omar · Jan 15, 2010 · Viewed 333.8k times · Source

I need to output 4 different floats to two decimal places.

This is what I have:

print '%.2f' % var1,'kg =','%.2f' % var2,'lb =','%.2f' % var3,'gal =','%.2f' % var4,'l'

Which is very unclean, and looks bad. Is there a way to make any float in that out put '%.2f'?

Note: Using Python 2.6.

Answer

Frank Krueger picture Frank Krueger · Jan 15, 2010

Well I would atleast clean it up as follows:

print "%.2f kg = %.2f lb = %.2f gal = %.2f l" % (var1, var2, var3, var4)

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