Problem in show precision of print python

Question

When i use %f in print it dosent work properly like the format type.

my code is:

a=13
print('dfdsfds %2f'%a +"  {:.2f}".format(a))

the answer is:

dfdsfds 13.000000  13.00

and the %numf just shows 6 precision and it doesn't care what is the num. why this happens?

Did you mean `%.2f`? See [PyFormat](https://pyformat.info/#number) for comparison between old and new string formatting specifiers — Tomerikoo, Nov 26 '20 at 09:27
Highly related: [limiting floats to two decimal points](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/455612/limiting-floats-to-two-decimal-points) — Tomerikoo, Nov 26 '20 at 09:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '20 at 09:34

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It does work properly. You just wrote to a different format Strings. If you change it to this:

a=13
print('dfdsfds %.2f' % a + "  {:.2f}".format(a))

You will get the output:

dfdsfds 13.00  13.00

answered Nov 26 '20 at 09:34

Tilo K

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