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storing number with 2 decimal place in Sqlite3 with python3

(1) By kbk (kbk4588) on 2020-06-14 09:21:25 [link] [source]

My apology if I have not make my question clear. I am asking how to program in python to store number with 2 decimal places. I am using tkinter TTK to display the number. It would appear that tkinter would just accept the native data from the sqlite data with a single digit decimal to display. So my question is how to make it store in sqlite3 database with 2 decimal places. yes I understand using prinf command in sqlite3 or select command to format but not in python programming as in my example.

I am a newbie, am I doing something wrong or do I approach it wrongly?

Just want a simple solution. Thank you.

(2) By Keith Medcalf (kmedcalf) on 2020-06-14 16:04:21 in reply to 1 [source]

Floating Point does not store an arbitrary number of digits after the decimal point.

The "standard" way to cause a floating point number to be "displayed" with exactly 2 decimal digits, even if the trailing one is a zero, has been since at least the middle of the twentieth century, to use an output mask that looks like this: '%12.02f' which causes the number to be formatted (right justified) into a field 12 characters wide with two digits EXACTLY (even if they are 0) after the decimal point.

In other words, this is a USER INPUT AND DISPLAY PROBLEM and has nothing whatsoever to do with SQLite3, which is merely a storage system.