On 12/3/2010 1:52 PM, Christopher Spears wrote:
I have a float variable that is very long.
float_a = 1.16667
However, I want to pass the value of float_a to float_b, but I want the float
to be accurate to two decimal points.
float_a = 1.16667
print "%.2f" % float_a
1.17
I tried the following:
float_b = "%.2f" % float_a
float_b
'1.17'
type(float_b)
<type 'str'>
This doesn't work because it yields a string.
Any suggestions?
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float_b = float(float_b)
That takes the string and makes it a float.
~Corey Richardson
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