On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I have the following code:
>
> ///
>
> b = Choice.objects.filter(choice=a.collection.id)
>    for cb in b:
>        discount_price = cb.price.name * Decimal(str(.75))
>        cb.price.name = discount_price
>        assert False, cb.price.name
>
> ///
>
> Basically I'm just decreasing my price by 25%.  However, when I do
> this my new value contains 4 decimal places.  37.5000 or 135.0000.
> What do I need to do to only show 2 decimal places.  I know how to do
> it in my template.  But I need to be able to do this in my view.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> >
>
This is more of a Python question, than a Django question. I do the
following to print out only 2 decimal places from a float:
>>> x = 35.0000
>>> print "%.2f" % x
35.00

You can use float() instead of print to get a float type back, but that is
probably not the most efficient way to do things.

-- 

Best,

R

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