Limit floats to two decimal points in Python
David Y.
—The Problem
How do I round a floating point number to two decimal places?
The Solution
We can do this using Python’s round() function, which rounds a given number to a specified number of decimal places. For example:
my_number = 9.489999999999 rounded = round(my_number, 2) print(rounded) # will output "9.49"
Due to the limitations of floating point arithmetic, the round() may sometimes produce unexpected results. If this is undesirable, consider using the decimal module as a replacement for floating point numbers.
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