Computer Science - Sal's Shipping I want to Show a dollar amount to two places

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I am on the computer science Sal’s Shipping project. How do I get my final dollar amount to display to 2 decimal places. i want the 2 decimals after the str(cost).

Here is the print command I am using:
print ("You should ship using " + method + ", it will cost " + “$” + str(cost) + “.”)

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You’ll probably want to look into the formatting methods avilable for strings in Python. There are other ways to do this such as changing the cents value to an integer but it’s unlikely to make a difference for these calculations-

A nice guide on formatting-
https://pyformat.info/

Python documentation on string formatting
https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatstrings
https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations

A very quick example-
‘{:.4f}’.format(1117.35367893) # produces ‘1117.3537’

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