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I'm reading this textbook called "Practical Statistics for Data Scientists" and this :.3f keeps getting used in almost every f-string. What does :.3f mean? My guess is it has something to do with floating point numbers.

Example:

 {house_lm_factor.intercept_:.3f}
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    "format this value as a float to 3 decimal places" Commented Oct 18, 2021 at 11:27
  • Please se Format Specification Mini-Language Commented Oct 18, 2021 at 11:33

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This is show you how many number are printing:

>>> import math
>>> flt = math.pi
>>> f'{flt:.3f}'
'3.142'

>>> f'{flt:.5f}'
'3.14159'

>>> f'{flt:.10f}'
'3.1415926536'
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