How to specify floating point decimal precision from variable?

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Solution 1

tabStr += '%-15s = %6.*f\n' % (id, i, val)  

where i is the number of decimal places.


BTW, in the recent Python where .format() has superseded %, you could use

"{0:<15} = {2:6.{1}f}".format(id, i, val)

for the same task.

Or, with field names for clarity:

"{id:<15} = {val:6.{i}f}".format(id=id, i=i, val=val)

If you are using Python 3.6+, you could simply use f-strings:

f"{id:<15} = {val:6.{i}f}"

Solution 2

I know this an old thread, but there is a much simpler way to do this:

Try this:

def printStr(FloatNumber, Precision):
    return "%0.*f" % (Precision, FloatNumber)
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  • Jeremy
    Jeremy over 3 years

    I have the following repetitive simple code repeated several times that I would like to make a function for:

    for i in range(10):
        id  = "some id string looked up in dict"
        val = 63.4568900932840928 # some floating point number in dict corresponding to "id"
        tabStr += '%-15s = %6.1f\n' % (id,val)
    

    I want to be able to call this function: def printStr(precision)
    Where it preforms the code above and returns tabStr with val to precision decimal points.

    For example: printStr(3)
    would return 63.457 for val in tabStr.

    Any ideas how to accomplish this kind of functionality?

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