How to modify float value in python dictionary?

Question

The python service gets the data in the following json format:

{
"total" : 3,
"records" : [ 
  {
    "regdId" : "A-10",
    "firstName" : "Adam",
    "amt" : 20
  }, 
 {
    "regdId" : "A-11",
    "firstName" : "Beth",
    "amt" : 22
 },
 {
    "regdId" : "A-12",
    "firstName" : "Candy",
    "amt" : 20.92
 }
]
}

Within python, the logic is like:

a = json.loads(file.text)
print(a)

This prints:

{ "total" : 2, "records" : [ { "regdId" : "A-10", "firstName" :
"Adam", "amt" : 20 }, { "regdId" : "A-11", "firstName" : "Beth",
"amt" : 22 }, { "regdId" : "A-12", "firstName" : "Candy", "amt" :
20.92 } }

The value of "amt" gets printed as it is. Need a logic to include in the python code, so that, the value of "amt" gets formatted to 2 digits after a decimal point? 2 trailing 0s for example.

Requirement is that, the value should have 2 0s after decimal point. In cases where there are 2 digits after decimal, they should be as they are.

With a simple variable, this can be done by:

a = 12
format(a,'.2f')

How to implement the above in a dictionary?

Asked By: layman

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Answer 1

for index in range(len(data['records'])):
   data['records'][index]['amt'] = format(data['records'][index]['amt'],'.2f')

data here is above json

Answered By: mando

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